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"Now then, me bullies! Would you rather do the gallows dance, and hang in chains 'til the crows pluck your eyes from your rotten skulls? Or would you feel the roll of a stout ship beneath your feet again?"
"Your neck will be stretched as long as your memory, one of these days."
"Are we such callous rascals that we'd leave a dead comrade without commending his soul to his new master? [the pirates gather around the dead man] Here lieth one who through treachery and avarice would have placed in jeopardy the lives of honest men. And here may he lie forever in the sands of Madagascar. Rest in peace."
"Look you then! I want men with iron in their blood and steel in their sinews. And the first up here is the first enlisted!"
"There's no mask for a treacherous heart like an honest face. Keep an eye on him!"
"I am an ambitious man, Mister Povey... and an ambitious man, if he be bold enough, can carve himself a kingdom."
"Adventure on the high seas!"
"Roaring Seas! Flaming Hearts! Riotous Adventure!"
"Charles Laughton — Capt. William Kidd"
"Randolph Scott — Adam Mercy"
"Barbara Britton — Lady Anne Dunstan"
"John Carradine — Orange Povey"
"Gilbert Roland — Jose Lorenzo"
"John Qualen — Bartholomew Blivens"
"Sheldon Leonard — Cyprian Boyle"
"William Farnum — Capt. Rawson"
"Henry Daniell — King William III"
"Reginald Owen — Cary Shadwell"
"Abner Biberman — Theodore Blades"
"Harry Cording — Newgate Prison Warder"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.