Giuseppe Garibaldi

Although disappointed, by the imperfect accomplishment of the work of securing all Italy to the Italians, there was much reason to rejoice, that the overflowing fountains of human blood, which had exhibited a spectacle shocking to…

In separating myself from you, whom I love as the representatives of a sublime idea—the idea of Italian deliverance—I am excited and sad; but consolation comes in the certainty that I shall very soon be among you again, to aid you in…

For you, as for me, the greatest of all possible misfortunes would be not to be present wherever there is fighting for Italy.

Young men who have sworn to be faithful to Italy and to the chief who will lead you to victory, lay not down your arms; remain firm at your post—continue your exercises—persevere in the soldier's discipline.

The truce will not last long; old diplomacy seems but little disposed to see things as they really are.

Diplomacy still looks upon you as the handful of malcontents which she had been accustomed to despise.

She does not know that in you there are the elements of a great nation, and that in your free and independent hearts there germinate the seeds of a world-wide revolution if our rights shall not be recognized, and if people will not allow…

We desire to invade no foreign soil; let us remain unmolested on our own.

Whosoever attempts to gainsay this our determination will find that we will never be slaves, unless they succeed in crushing by force an entire people ready to die for liberty.

But, even should we all fall, we shall bequeath to future generations a legacy of hatred and vengeance against foreign domination; the inheritance of each of our sons will be a rifle, and the consciousness of his rights; and by the…

Fellow-citizens, let not a man in Italy omit to contribute his mite to the national subscription; let not one fail to clean his gun, so as to be ready, perhaps to-morrow, to obtain by force that which to-day they hesitate to grant to our…

The cruelty of the government and its agents have surpassed belief.

The people, although few, compared with the numbers which that large and fertile island might sustain under a better government, have made repeated and strenuous efforts to obtain their freedom, and submitted only to overwhelming and…

It was one of the finest sights you could see when their fires blazed up at night, and mingled their red glare with the pale light of the moon.

They were all ready to join, but had no arms, which did not prevent their raising shouts for Italy, Victor Emanuel, and Garibaldi.

The word tent is erased from the military dictionary of Garibaldi.

It is only in this irregular warfare that you see these scenes in their greatest perfection.

He told them that it was not his custom to have councils of war, but he thought it for once good to consult them, as upon the resolution taken must depend the fate of Sicily, and perhaps of Italy.

It is not the want of will, but a deficiency in acting otherwise than by order.

This is our advantage in these street fights; the longer they last, the more they increase the confidence of the irregulars, and destroy the discipline of the regular troops.

There is no pen able to describe, nor imagination strong enough to conceive, the nature of the present Italian movement.

It is a nation in the struggles of its second birth.

They are everywhere organizing themselves into committees, instituting clubs, or 'circoli,' and other political associations, inundating the country with an evanescent but not inefficient press.

Such a sudden and universal swarming and blending together of the long-severed tribes of the same race the world never witnessed.

Under the Turin porticoes you hear the pure, sharp Tuscan, the rich, drawling Roman, the lisping Venetian, the close ringing Neapolitan, as often as the harsh, guttural, vernacular Piedmontese.