"It seems insane. Free speech is one thing, but to jeopardize the League over nationalistic rivalries--and it's for people like that, short-sighted, suicidal people, that we're pushing Ender to the edge of human endurance."
"I think you underestimate Ender."
"But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind."
"Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card
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