Later when the Crispi government seemed bent on war against the French Republic Cavallotti51 spoke out in the name of Italian democracy and all the friends of peace saying that the Italian soldiers would have to march over our dead bodies before they could cross the French frontier As a result Crispi was forced into changing his policy to one that made such a war impossible
Again a few years later the same minister planned to send an entire army to Africa to regain the prestige which, according to the militarists had been lost by our forces in the unfortunate battle of Adua. But threatened with revolution by the people if this senseless and unjust war were continued, he was compelled to hand over power