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 sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery. — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
“[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… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
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.… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants. — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
![“[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 more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, if it's big, hit it.” quote by Bill Mauldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/843/bill-mauldin-28650_art_editorial-cartooning-is-essentially-a-de_1740934.jpg)
