Quotes by Bill Mauldin

• 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.
• Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
• I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
• 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.