Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes
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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.
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By the law of God, given by him to humanity, all men are free, are brothers, and are equals.
[Equality]
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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
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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.
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Good council has no price.
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Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
[Revolution]
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Human judgment, like Luther's drunken peasant, when saved from falling on one side, topples over on the other.
[Judgment]
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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.
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Labor is the divine law of our existence; repose is desertion and suicide.
[Labor]
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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.
[Progress]
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Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world one note of the divine concord which the entire universe is destined one day to sound.
[Music]
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Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
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Nations, like individuals, live or die, but civilization cannot perish.
[Civilization]
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Pardon is the virtue of victory.
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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
[Advancing]
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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it.
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So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
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The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.
[Individuality]
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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.
[Family]
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The great men of the earth are but marking stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.
[Greatness]
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