In the face of the dangerous erosion of the general will, the collapse of civic conscience and the loss of the sense of justice, the last, extreme bastion of morality, it is the duty of the community to resist, resist, resist, as if on an unyielding line of the Piave.

From the statement issued by the President of the Milan Court of Appeal during the inauguration of the judicial year, 12 January 2002. Quoted in “”Borrelli, from Mani pulite to that cry: “Resist, resist, resist”', “'Repubblica.it”', 23 May 2006. The original quote is by Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, from his speech to the Chamber of Deputies on 22 December 1917.