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"The standing armies, while a burden on the people, are inadequate for the achievement of great and decisive results in war, and meanwhile the mass of the people, untrained in arms, degenerates....The hegemony over Europe will fall to that nation which...becomes possessed of manly virtues and creates a national army."
"Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs."
"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."
"Science does not aim to cover exhaustively the whole of reality, but to construct systems and concepts which will perhaps — and it is a big perhaps — allow man to act on the world."
"A corrupted and weakened community breaks down in immense catastrophes; the iron harrow of revolutions crushes men like the clods of the field; but, in the blood-stained furrows germinates a new generation, and the soul aggrieved, believes again."
"Sous son règne, la France était grande et les Français malheureux."
"La loi permet souvent ce que défend l’honneur."
"Rien ne manque à sa gloire, il manquait à la nôtre."
"Qu’une nuit paraît longue à la douleur qui veille!"
"La loi de l'univers, c'est malheur aux vaincus!"
"Ici nous ignorons dans quel climat nous sommes ; ici nous ignorons et les lieux et les hommes : des honneurs solennels vous paîront vos bienfaits."
"Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence."
"Tremblez, tyrans, vous êtes immortels."
"J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pas Qu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille."
"Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends."
"Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis."
"Modesty is the grace of the soul."
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.