Bill Mauldin

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

— Bill Mauldin

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

— 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…

— 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…

— Bill Mauldin

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

— Bill Mauldin

If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

— Bill Mauldin

“When we ain't fightin' we should act like sojers”

— Bill Mauldin

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Bill Mauldin

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

— 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…

— Bill Mauldin

I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted…

— Bill Mauldin

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

— Bill Mauldin

“When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody's ear, "This…

— Bill Mauldin

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

— Bill Mauldin

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…

— Bill Mauldin

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

— Bill Mauldin