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"[on his plans to run for office] When I can walk, I'll run."
"[During a speech] Now, they say! The best way to get rid of a man! Is to have him run for vice president! Well, I say! Ask my cousin Teddy! That's how they got rid of him!"
"[first time standing in the pool] I can't even stand! I can't even stand..."
"[tearfully, standing in the pool] I'm standing. I'm standing."
"[speaking at the schoolhouse graduation ceremony] Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Now, you know, at Groton where I graduated from high school, our beloved Headmaster encouraged his students to enter public life. I chose to attend Harvard for my undergraduate work and then Columbia for my law degree. Followed my Headmaster's advice and sought a career in public life, but circumstances beyond my control... [begins shaking] have made that very difficult. You know, I've given many speeches in my life. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time making this one."
"Well, I want to say how proud I am to be a part of this community... community based not on birth rite or privilege, but on compassion and courage and -You know, I believe the true power of these waters is that they brought us all together. And our ability to help one another is what will make our victory over polio endure, because what... because what you have done, and what we will continue to do until this disease is defeated is to come together, like a family. Do what we do best. Lift each other up."
"Franklin, I can't help you out of a hole if I climb in with you."
""There but for the grace of God," they say, as if our bodies were who we are. Well it's not: our souls are who we are, only they don't know it."
"The greatest challenge FDR faced was the one we never saw."
"A new movie by HBO Films."
"FDR brought us out of the Depression and through a world war. But the greatest challenge he faced was the one we never saw."
"The story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt before he became President."
"Kenneth Branagh - Franklin D. Roosevelt"
"Cynthia Nixon - Eleanor Roosevelt"
"Kathy Bates - Helena Mahoney"
"Tim Blake Nelson - Tom Loyless"
"Jane Alexander - Sara Delano Roosevelt"
"David Paymer - Louis McHenry Howe"
"Andrew Davoli - Jake Perini"
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.