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Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.

Joseph Sobran

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Joseph Sobran
Age: 64 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 23
Died: 2010
Died: September 30
Journalist
Writer
Ypsilanti
Michigan
Loyalty
Lying
Country
Never
Require

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