Cavour Quotes
- Chief architect — Denis Mack-Smith
- The principle condition for improving the lot of Italy is to raise her reputation. — Cavour
- Did not shy away from centralized intervention in the economy where he though it necessary — Denis Mack-Smith
- It was Cavour who by wise domestic policy first won the respect and confidence of Europe — Arthur J Whyte
- Traditionally the Crimean war has been viewed as the major turning point in the development of Cavours new national policy. — Davis
- Clear precise aim: that of creating a unified and independent Italy. — Petrucelli Della Gattina
- Italy owed most to French armies. — AJP Taylor
- I omitted nothing to persuade Garibaldi to drop his mad scheme. — Cavour
- The genius of Victor Emmanuels prime minister have raised the king to the position he now occupies in Italy and Europe. — The French Embassy During 1850
- Italy was unified by the knife of shylock — Gaetano Salvemini
- The speed of Italian unification compelled ministers to treat the nation as an extension of Piedmont. — Denis Mack-Smith
- Never was Italy as divided as she is now — D Azeglio In 1863
- It was the same clear brain and firm hand which brought Napoleon III into Italy in 1859. — Arthur J Whyte