“He says giants built it in the morning of the world,” Hanno told Pytheas. “Then his people are as ignorant as we,” the Greek said low. - Poul Anderson

I also know you cannot pick and choose. Change is a medicine bundle. You must refuse it altogether, or take the whole thing.

We, the proper civil government, approved your defense measures of the past several years, though you are aware that I myself always considered them excessive. When I think of the prosperity that tax money, those resources, could have brought, left in private hands—or the social good it could have done in the public sector— Give you military your heads, and you’d build bases in the fourth dimension to protect us against an invasion from the future.

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.