The 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 Tilak

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

After all, our Killers are our ...Brothers!!??

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

If 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 im…

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of …

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your fam…

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

- Bal Gangadhar Tilak