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> ['Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/peace-is-when-nobody-s-shooting-a-just-peace-is-when-our-side-gets/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

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## More by Bill Mauldin

> [Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/patton-was-living-in-the-dark-ages-soldiers-were-peasants-to-him-i/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/certainly-none-of-the-advances-made-in-civilization-has-been-due-to/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/i-would-like-to-thank-the-people-who-encouraged-me-to-draw-army/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/a-soldier-s-life-revolves-around-his-mail-like-many-others-i-ve-been/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/the-surest-way-to-become-a-pacifist-is-to-join-the-infantry/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/if-you-re-a-leader-you-don-t-push-wet-spaghetti-you-pull-it/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [“When we ain't fightin' we should act like sojers”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/when-we-ain-t-fightin-we-should-act-like-sojers/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/i-feel-like-a-fugitive-from-the-law-of-averages/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/the-american-public-highly-overrates-its-sense-of-humor-we-re-great/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [ “\[Editorial cartooning\] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/editorial-cartooning-is-essentially-a-destructive-art-we-are-not/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/if-you-re-a-leader-you-don-t-push-wet-spaghetti-you-pull-it-the-u-s/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/humor-is-really-laughing-off-a-hurt-grinning-at-misery/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/my-outlook-on-warfare-is-best-illustrated-by-a-cartoon-i-did-some/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> [I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/i-drew-pictures-for-and-about-the-soldiers-because-i-knew-what-their/)

[Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mauldin/)

> ['Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mauldin/peace-is-when-nobody-s-shooting-a-just-peace-is-when-our-side-gets/)

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