Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
"A Sepulchre of Songs," from The Changed Man (April 1992), ISBN 0-812-53365-8, page 125.
“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”
Letter to G.K. Chesterton (12 December 1917), quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. 355
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