““That’s a nice speech, Trujillo,” Rybicki said. “It doesn’t make it true.”
“General, at the moment, I wouldn’t place you as an authority on truth.””

—  John Scalzi , The Last Colony

Source: The Last Colony (2007), Chapter 14 (p. 274)

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