Camillo di Cavour

“We have made Italy. Now we must make Italians.”

“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth and they never believe me.”

“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.”

“A free Church in a free State.”

“In politics, nothing is so absurd as rancor.”

“Political gratitude is a farce.”

“Italy must be built with liberty, or we must renounce the idea of building it at all.”

“The worse the state of affairs, the more ready I am to trust to some unforeseen event.”

“The great question of the day is not of reform, but of revolution.”