Mazer Rackham

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

• Ender's Game
  • p. 194 (Easton Press, 1993)

It had to be a child... Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

• Ender's Game
  • pp. 208-209 (Easton Press, 1993)

[The buggers] damn near wiped us out last time. They had us cold, outnumbered and outweaponed. The only thing that saved us was that we had the most brilliant military commander we ever found. Call it fate, call it God, call it damnfool luck, we had Mazer Rackham.

• Ender's Game
  • p. 18 (Easton Press, 1993)