Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazziniwas an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 June 1805
CountryItaly
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.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey. Goof should struggle with evil; truth should struggle with falsehood; freedom should struggle with slavery; love should struggle with hatred. Life is movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light.
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.
Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious.
God holds with the strong.
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!
Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.
A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.
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.
Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.
Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.
Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.
What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.