Today In History On June 29, 1776, delegates to the fifth Revolutionary Convention in Virginia adopted the state's first independent constitution and selected Patrick Henry as their governor. He was sworn in on July 6, 1776. Quote-Unquote "Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." – Patrick Henry​

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." – George Orwell​

"If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world." – Athanasius of Alexandria

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