Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
Bill Mauldin, CC BY-SA 4.0
The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. 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, CC BY-SA 4.0
You've got to be a misanthrope in this business, a real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends, and I'll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it.
Bill Mauldin, CC BY-SA 4.0
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
Bill Mauldin, CC BY-SA 4.0
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. 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, CC BY-SA 4.0
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, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Nationalities: United States
Cause of death: Alzheimer's disease
Languages: English
Education: Phoenix Union High School, School of the Art Institute of Chicago