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 MazziniThe honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.
Giuseppe MazziniGreat revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
Giuseppe MazziniThe great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.
Giuseppe Mazzini