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1805 - 1872
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Insurrectionby means of guerrilla bandsis the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke.
Giuseppe Mazzini— 1833 General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.
Ihadthoughttoevokethesoulof Italy but all Ifind before me is its corpse.
Giuseppe Mazzini— Attributed. Quoted in Denis Mack Smith Italy: A Modern History (1959).
A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.
Giuseppe Mazzini— In La Giovine Italia ('Young Italy').
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— Life and Writings: Young Europe: General Principles; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922, pp. 207-8)
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
Giuseppe Mazzini— Life and Writings, Young Italy; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 333.
The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.
Giuseppe Mazzini— Reported in ?Thomas Jones, The Duties of Man and Other Essays (1915), page 61.
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?
Giuseppe Mazzini— The Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini (1864). p. vii.
Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.
Giuseppe Mazzini— Attributed in The Cambridge Modern History (1907), ed. Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122
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— Giuseppe Mazzini, Life and Writings, Young Europe, General Principles.
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
Giuseppe Mazzini— Giuseppe Mazzini, Life and Writings, Young Italy.
One sole God; One sole ruler, his Law; One sole interpreter of that law Humanity.
Giuseppe Mazzini— Giuseppe Mazzini, Life and Writings: Young Europe: General Principles. No. 1., reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1923), p. 318.
