Quote: 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]
Quote: Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Good council has no price. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound
to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will
derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that
duty. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words! [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. [Giuseppe Mazzini]
Quote: Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. [Giuseppe Mazzini]