26 Quotes by 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 until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

[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.

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

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

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

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 army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

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

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