defence Quotes

“Ye choose and ye do not choose! What talk is this of choosing? By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues? It is I, Shere Khan, who speak!”

“What was the use of half slaying him with blows if thou didst not warn him?”

“He will never eat my babies again.”

“What shall I do? Where shall I go? I have fought with a white thing that waved, and it took a stick and hit me on the neck.”

And how dared I, knowing myself, knowing how I should be, take up an axe and shed blood! I ought to have known beforehand.... Ah, but I did know!

The essential point is that without seeing her you must believe, confess, affirm, swear, and defend it;