"Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits." - Attributed to David Spitz
"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45238/
"Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better." - Attributed to Jane Elizabeth Auer
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9100
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." — Reinhold Niebuhr
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr
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