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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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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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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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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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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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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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 understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton.
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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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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
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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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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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You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn’t execute properly.
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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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Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men’s Souls to Greatness…
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