"Your first duties — first, at least, in importance — are, as I have told you, to Humanity. But what means have you wherewith to fulfil these duties, what strength? The family is too restricted a sphere, and will become more and more so. The country alone, the country which God has given you, embracing alike the cradle of your infancy and the bones of your fathers and the germs of your future, is the workshop in which your strength is to be tried and developed. The country is your first Parents, your first Teachers, your first Benefactors. Do not betray her."

Giuseppe Mazzini, The Duties of Man (Dei Doveri dell'Uomo), written 1844–58, published 1860. Mazzini was the leading ideologist of Italian nationalism and founder of the Young Italy movement in 1831. He spent most of his adult life in exile in London.