https://t.inks.page/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom?t=2026-04-05 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.

• 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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