The Unification of Italy c1815-71

The quotes quiz: answers

Three men, what they said and what they did

Mazzini	Cavour	Garibaldi

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare
for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke.
It is invincible, indestructible.
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1805-72

So long as you are ready to die for humanity,
the life of your country is immortal.
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1805-72

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles,
but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements
which compose the nation.
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1805-72

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1807-82

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only
its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation;
it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship
which binds together all the sons of that territory.
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1805-72

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger,
thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves
his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1807-82

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth
and they never believe me.
Camillo Count di Cavour, 1810-61

O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home,
the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family
which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more
intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others;
a family which by its concentration upon a given spot,
 and by the homogeneous nature of its elements,
is destined for a special kind of activity.
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1805-72

In the midst of Italy, at its heart, there is a cancer called Popery,-
an imposture called Popery. Yes, young men, we still have a formidable
enemy, the more formidable because it exists among the ignorant
classes, where it rules by falsehood.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1807-82

Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow:
insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses:
the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans:
the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce
with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground
on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile,
flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1805-72

Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights,
no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.
You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner,
Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection;
none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with
the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions
if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.
Giuseppe Mazzini, 1805-72

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