Top 15 Ned Kelly Quotes

Oh, what a pretty garden.

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

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

If they were in my position they would not smile much.

My mates are all gone; it is a sad affair, but of course it can't be helped now.

I wanted to see the thing end.

They are all damned fools to bother their heads about Parliament at all, for this is our country.

The country belongs to us; we can go anywhere we like.

I am the son of Red Kelly and a better man never stood in two shoes.

I will go a little further than that, and say I will see you there where I go.

That charge [stealing over 200 horses] has never been proved against me, and it is held in English law that a man is innocent until proven guilty.

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.

... a day will come, at a bigger Court than this, when we shall see which is right and which is wrong.

Two years ago—even if my own life was at stake—and I am confident, if I thought a man would shoot me—I would give him a chance of keeping his life, and would part with my own; but if I knew that through him innocent persons' lives were at stake, I certainly would have to shoot him.

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