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George Orwell

“Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...

It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping a sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink.”

George Orwell, 1984
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