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It appeared [based on the evidence given] that I deliberately took up arms, of my own accord, and induced the other three to join me, for the purpose of doing nothing but shooting down the police.

— Ned Kelly Sentencing (1880)

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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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