Quotes by Bal Gangadhar Tilak(Lokmanya Tilak)

Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Swaraj (self-rule) is my birthright and I shall have it.

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 impenetrable darkness.
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. 
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 struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.