"Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits [for democracy]. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse."
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, "Dictatorship and Double Standards", Commentary (November 1979), New York, as quoted in The Economist (23 December 2006), p. 131
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