Giuseppe Garibaldi Quotes

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.

Necessity does not submit to debate.

Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not his lips only, follow me.

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

A bold onset is half the battle.

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Man created God, not God, man

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.

Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.