It was in a praiseworthy object that he murdered Afzul Khan for the good of others.
If thieves enter our house and we have not strength to drive them out, should we not without hesitation shut them in, and burn them alive?
God has conferred on the _mlencchas_ (foreigners) no grant of Hindustan inscribed on imperishable brass.

Shivaji strove to drive them forth out of the land of his birth, but he was guiltless of the sin of covetousness.
Do not circumscribe your vision like frogs in a well.

Rise above the Penal Code into the rarefied atmosphere of the sacred Bhaghavad Gita and consider the action of great men.
In the reflected blaze of this apotheosis of Shivaji, Tilak stood forth as the appointed leader of the "nation." He was the triumphant champion of Hindu orthodoxy, the high-priest of Ganesh, the inspired prophet of a new "nationalism," which in the name of Shivaji would cast out the hated _mlencchas_ and restore the glories of Mahratta history.

The Government feared him, for people could put no other construction on the official confirmation of his election when he was returned in 1895 as a member of the Bombay Legislative Council--above all, when inside the Council-room he continued with the same audacity and the same impunity his campaign of calumny and insult.

His activity was unceasing.