Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) 

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
Arman de Caillavet 

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) 

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) 

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie!" till you can find a rock.
Wynn Catlin 

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) 

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) 

Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
Pope Julius III