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Bill Mauldin Quotes: 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 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.


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Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.



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



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



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

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



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

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



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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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





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