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"Every man who wages war believes God is on his side. I'll warrant God should often wonder who is on his."
"O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me."
"Was not Gideon outnumbered by the Amalekites? It is not numbers that count, but speed and surprise. Let no man move, except upon the word of his commander! Though we be outnumbered, we shall win this battle! I promise you! So now put your faith in God and keep your powder dry."
"In the name of God! What are we all? Men? Cowering and quivering like downtrodden serfs. The king is not England, and England is not the king! It is not the survival of the king that is at issue here. It is the survival of England. And this king, by his dishonesties, by his treasons, and by his secret treaties with foreign powers, has shown himself to be ill-fitted to govern this great nation!"
"Gentlemen, an immovable Parliament is more obnoxious than an immovable king! You are drunkards, tricksters, villains, whoremasters, godless, self-seeking, ambitious tricksters. You are no more capable of conducting the affairs of this nation than you are of running a brothel!"
"I go now from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown."
"Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell"
"Alec Guinness as King Charles"
"Robert Morley as the Earl of Manchester"
"Dorothy Tutin as Queen Henrietta Maria: wife of Charles I."
"Frank Finlay as John Carter"
"Timothy Dalton as Prince Rupert"
"Patrick Wymark as the Earl of Strafford"
"Patrick Magee as Hugh Peters"
"Nigel Stock as Sir Edward Hyde"
"Charles Gray as the Earl of Essex"
"Michael Jayston as Henry Ireton"
"Douglas Wilmer as Thomas Fairfax"
"Geoffrey Keen as John Pym"
"Stratford Johns as Judge John Bradshaw"
"Ian McCulloch as John Hampden"
"Patrick O'Connell as John Lilburne"
"Anna Cropper as John Carter's wife"
"Jack Gwillim as John Byron, 1st Baron Byron"
"Anthony May as Richard Cromwell"
"Stacy Dorning as Mary Cromwell"
"Zena Walker as Elizabeth Cromwell"
"John Welsh as Bishop Juxon"
"Robin Stewart as Charles, Prince of Wales"
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.