Quote by Orson Scott Card

“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,…

— Orson Scott Card

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was…

— Orson Scott Card

“But this was the army. Useful or not, there was a routine to be followed and orders to be obeyed.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“History has shown there are no invincible armies.”

— Joseph Stalin

“In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and…

— Anne Perry

“Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn’t know how to handle themselves in battle.”

— Orson Scott Card

“It is harder to end a war, than begin one.”

— Barack Obama

“Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?”

— David Finkel

“A thing so triumphantly illogical, so beautifully senseless as an army can’t allow a question to weaken it.”

— John Steinbeck

“It was the beginning of the end. Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.”

— Sherry Thomas

“It is easier to start a war than to end it.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...”

— Slava Pilotoff