“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Attributed in The Cambridge Modern History (1907), ed. Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122

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Italian patriot, politician and philosopher 1805–1872

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