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Keep your freedom. It's the best thing you have. Never become a bushranger unless you are absolutely forced to it.

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Source: Smith's Weekly (26 September 1936)

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Freedom

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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.

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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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