"Diplomacy is the same as saying "nice doggie" until you have a chance to pick up a rock."
— Will Rogers

January 1, 1970

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Other variants also attributed to Wynn Catlin in Kiss Me Hardy: Quotations Ancient and (Very) Modern (1982) by Roger Kilroy; and to Winston Churchill by Dick Applegate in a speech reprinted in Volume 75 of "The Carpenter" (1955)