"This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it."

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Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.

— Jean-Paul Marat