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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
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“Long live the republic, down with all tyrants!”
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810–1861) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to France's July Revolution (July 1830), quoted in Denis Mack Smith, Cavour (1985), p. 6
“[We desire] to imbue all sections of society, both civil and religious, with the ideal of liberty. We desire economic liberty, we desire administrative liberty, we desire full and absolute liberty of conscience. We desire all the political liberties that are compatible with the maintenance of public order. And therefore, as a necessary consequence of this order of things, we deem it essential...that the principle of liberty should be applied to the relations between Church and State.”
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810–1861) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arturo Carlo Jemolo, Church and State in Italy, 1850–1950 (1960), pp. 23–24
“Tell that good friend of ours that our trade laws are the most liberal of the continent; that for ten years we have been practising the maxims that he exhorts us to adopt; tell him that he preaches to the converted.”
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810–1861) first seen 1852 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Marquis d'Azeglio after William Ewart Gladstone expounded his economic and political ideals in a letter to d'Azeglio (9 December 1860), La Politique du Comte Camille de Cavour de 1852 à 1861, p. 392, quoted in…