“Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the Idea to which it gives birth; it is the Thought of love, the sense of communion which unites in one all the sons of that territory.”

On the Duties of Man (1844-58)

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Italian patriot, politician and philosopher 1805–1872

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