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 about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: “The hell this ain’t the most important hole in the world . I’m in it.
BILL MAULDINPeace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
More Bill Mauldin Quotes
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You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn’t execute properly.
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All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
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Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
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I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
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We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
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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.
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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.
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I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make something out of the humorous situations which come up even when you don’t think life could be any more miserable.
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Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is – to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That’s really what I’m called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.
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But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom.
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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
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If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
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Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
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What you are about to hear is God’s word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power – that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.
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