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.
BILL MAULDINIf you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
More Bill Mauldin Quotes
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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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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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Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men’s Souls to Greatness…
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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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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
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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 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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We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
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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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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’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
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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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All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
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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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