| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38354 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), Italian nationalist leader. Faith and the Future, sct. 1 (1835), trans. in Essays by Joseph Mazzini, ed. Bolton King (1894). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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