Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Those who cast the Votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
The Polish Communists are just like radishes. They are only red on the outside.
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
It`s not the voting that`s democracy, it`s the counting.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
True democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.
To wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
If intelligence had anything to do with the voting process, then all the smart people would vote the same.
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
Kill one person you're a murderer, kill ten people you're a serial killer, kill a million and you get invited to a peace conference.
