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It was Thomas Rainsborough from the Putney Debates, 1647 after the civil war. I chose a less famous quote, but it does come up if you put it in quotation marks. I realize now that without quotes, it points to Blake.
Full speech here:
https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/30/thepooresthe