M: Fellow citizens, members of the National Assembly, our country is in danger. From every corner of Europe armies invade us led by profiteers who want to strangle us and already quarrell over the spoils. And what are we doing? Our minister of war, whose integrity you never doubted, has sold the corn meant for our armies for his own profit to foreign powers and now it feeds the troops who are invading us...
Deputies: Lies! Shut him up!
M: The chief of our Army, du Murier...
Deputies: Bravo! Long live du Murier!
M:... against whom I've warned you continually and who you've recently hailed as a hero, has gone over to the enemy!
Deputies: Shame! Bravo!
M: Most of our generals, who wear our uniforms are sympathetic with the émigrés, and when the émigrés return our generals will be out there to welcome them!
Deputies: Execute them! Down with Marat! Long live Marat!
M: Our trusted minister of finance, the celebrated monsieur Cambon is issuing fake banknotes, thus increasing inflation and diverting an entire fortune into his own pocket.
Kokol: Long live free enterprise
M: And I am told... that the wiley Perigot, who is at this very moment head of the Bank of France is in league with the English, and the armed boards beneath his bank are buzzing with renegades and spies!
Deputies: Go on! Shut up! Down with Marat! Long live Marat!
M: Our country is in danger. We talk about France, but who is France for? We talk about freedom, but who is this freedom for?! Members of the National Assembly! You will never shake off the past... You will never understand the great upheaval in which you find yourselves
Deputies: Boooooh!!
M: Why are there thousands of public seats in this Assembly? So anyone can hear what's being discussed!
Duperret: What is he trying to do? Look who sit on the public benches. Knitting women, concierges, and washerwomen with no one to employ them anymore. Who would pick up on the sides? Pickpockets, layabouts, and parasites who loiter in the boulevards and hang around cafés!
Polpoch: I wish we could...
Duperret: Released prisoners! Escaped lunatics! Are we the ones to rule our country with these?!
M: You are liers, you hate the people.
Deputies: Well done Marat! That's true!
M: You will never stop talking of the people as a rough and formless mass, why? Because you live apart from them! You let yourselves be dragged into the Revolution knowing nothing about its principles! Has not our expected Danton announced that instead of banning riches we should make poverty respectable! And Robespierre, who turns white with the word fortitude, doesn't he sit at plyglass tables making cocktail conversation by candlelight!?
Deputies: Down with them! Down with Danton! Down with Marat!
M: And still you long to hail them! Those betrayers of the Revolution! Those powder chimpanzees! I denounce them. I denounce: Necker! Laffayette! What we need now is a true deputy of the People! One who is incorruptible, one who you can trust. Things are breaking down. Things are chaotic. But that is good, that is the first step! Now you must take the next step and choose a man who will rule for you!
Deputies: Marat for dictator! Marat in his bathtub! Take him down the sewers! Dictator of the wrath!
M: Dictator as a word must be abolished! I want nothing to do with master and slave! I am talking of a leader...
Duperret: Cease! To rouse him again to new murders!!!
M: We do not murder, we kill in self defence... We are fighting for our lives!!!!!!!
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