# Quote — Stephen Baxter, Ultima

> I know the military. The sooner they can kick a problem upstairs the happier they will be.

- Author: [Stephen Baxter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter.md)
- Book: [Ultima](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ultima.md)
- Page: 67
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Baxter#Ultima_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ultima/i-know-the

## More from this book

> In the hearts of a hundred billion worlds
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> Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse—
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> In the chthonic silence—
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> All that could have been done had been done.
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> In peace and satisfaction, minds diffuse and antique submitted to the End Time.

p. 513 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ultima/in-the-hearts.md)

> We underestimated the vindictiveness of mankind. Their retrospective tribunals. Their visiting of punishments on the children of the perpetrators. They never forgave us.

p. 292 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ultima/we-underestimated-the.md)

> Ah, Mardina. Evidently you entirely lack imagination. You’ll go far in the Navy.

p. 167 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ultima/ah-mardina-evidently.md)