Quote#Freedom
It will pay Government to give those people who are suffering…
Quote byNed Kelly · 1854–1880
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Jerilderie Letter (1879).
English (original)
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
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My mother, with an infant baby, and brother-in-law and another neighbour, were taken for aiding and abetting and attempting to murder [Fitzpatrick], a charge for which they are as purely innocent as the child unborn.
If the public do not see justice done I will seek revenge for the name and character which has been given to me and my relations, while God gives me strength to pull a trigger.
Everyone looks on me like a black snake.
The ignorant unicorns even threaten to shoot myself But as soon as I am dead they will be heels up in the muroo.
I threw big cowardly Hall on his belly I straddled him and rooted both spurs onto his thighs he roared like a big calf attacked by dogs ... I used to trip him and let him take a mouth ful of dust now and again as he was as helpless as a …
This cannot be called wilful murder, for I was compelled to shoot [the police] in my own defence, or lie down like a cur and die.