It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.
Bal Gangadhar TilakThe geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
Bal Gangadhar TilakOur nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
Bal Gangadhar TilakIf we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak