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.
BILL MAULDINIf 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.
More Bill Mauldin Quotes
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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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Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
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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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All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
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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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Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
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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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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.
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We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
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When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
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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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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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True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
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I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
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