 His most famous speeches were directed against the school reform which sanctioned Italian as the sole language of education in Italy.In his last speech, delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, he stated that, after the abolition of Slovene and Croatian language schools, every South Slavic family in Italy would transform itself into a school.In his concluding remark, he stated that "the laws of States are mutable, but Nations live forever", thus famously asserting the natural right of peoples before the established legal conventions.