57 Quotes by Giuseppe Mazzini

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 which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one’s actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

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.