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It will pay Government to give those people who are suffering innocence, justice and liberty. if not I will be compelled to show some colonial stratagem which will open the eyes of not only the Victoria Police and inhabitants but also the whole British army and no doubt they will acknowledge their hounds were barking at the wrong stump.

— Ned Kelly Jerilderie Letter (1879)

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A man that kills his enemy, particularly an enemy out to slaughter him, is no murderer, and all police are my enemies.

My mind is as easy as the mind of any man in this world, as I am prepared to show before God and man.

Sentencing (1880)

It is a very easy matter for me to pull the trigger, if you do not keep a civil tongue in your head.

Although I have been bushranging I have always believed that when I die I have a God to meet.

I am Ned Kelly, son of Red Kelly, as good a blood as any in the land.

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