Bill Mauldin

“You don't fight a war and then go back to peacetime life.”

“Willie and Joe are not heroes. They are just guys who are trying to get through the war.”

“My business is drawing pictures, not writing captions.”

“Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. ...If we are to be a peaceful people, we must be a fighting people.”

“I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.”

“I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.”

“I draw because I want to talk to people.”

“If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.”

“It is a sobering thought that G.I.s who are my age are now generals.”

“Up front there are only two kinds of people: the quick and the dead.”

“The only way I could get along with the Army was to make a little private war of my own.”

“A lot of guys who are heroes don't know it.”