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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.

Bill Mauldin

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

Civilization Made Status
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.
BILL MAULDIN

School War Winning
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Living Peasants Respected Sure
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
BILL MAULDIN

Coaching Player Teamwork
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Children Hurt Laughing
True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
BILL MAULDIN

Depth Emotional Soul
Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
BILL MAULDIN

Cynical Shooting Want
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Kids Progress Soldier
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Beautiful Good Life Ocean
Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men’s Souls to Greatness…
BILL MAULDIN

Dream Greatness Men
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Army Conception Mean Men
You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn’t execute properly.
BILL MAULDIN

Play Player Property Reason
When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
BILL MAULDIN

Ability Born Again DNA
If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
BILL MAULDIN

Leadership Spaghetti Wet
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 MAULDIN

Italian Reading Years
We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
BILL MAULDIN

Building Team Team Building

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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