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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.

Bill Mauldin

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
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
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Catholic Heart Mother
Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
BILL MAULDIN

Cynical Shooting Want
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
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
BILL MAULDIN

Born might Trouble Maker
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
Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men’s Souls to Greatness…
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Dream Greatness Men
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Honesty Integrity Men
I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
BILL MAULDIN

Packages Prize Want Wanted
If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
BILL MAULDIN

Leadership Spaghetti Wet
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
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
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 MAULDIN

Humorous Soldier Thinking
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 MAULDIN

Attitude Dark Soldier
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
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
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
BILL MAULDIN

Funny Motivation Science
When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
BILL MAULDIN

Ability Born Again DNA
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Focus Jesus Purpose
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
BILL MAULDIN

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

Civilization Made Status
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

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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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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