They've never seen us make a move like that. They don't understand that, yes, humans will always act to preserve their own lives - except for the times when they don't. In the bugger's experience, autonomous beings do not sacrifice themselves. Once they understood our autonomy, the seed of their defeat was sown.

Yet throughout history, great victories had come as much because of the losing army's errors as because of the winner's brilliance in battle.

He pretended all this time that humans were rational human beings, when we are really the most terrible monsters these poor aliens could ever have conceived of…

But he held his tongue, because, in the back of his mind, in the deepest corner of his heart, he still had hope that Ender might do what could not be done.

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

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