Decades, If Not Centuries Are Normally Required

Vietnam Presumably Taught Us That The United States Could Not Serve As The World's Policeman; It Should Also Have Taught Us The Dangers Of Trying To Be The World's Midwife To Democracy When The Birth Is Scheduled To Take Place Under Conditions Of Guerrilla War.

All Of Us Confront Limits Of Body, Talent, Temperament. But That Is Not All. We Are, All Of Us, Also Constrained By Our Time, Our Place, Our Civilization.

Cultural Constraints Condition And Limit Our Choices, Shaping Our Characters With Their Imperatives.

Decades, If Not Centuries Are Normally Required For People To Acquire The Necessary Disciplines And Habits. In Britain, The Road [to Democratic Government] Took Seven Centuries To Traverse.

In The Years Just Before... During The Carter Years, The Soviets Regularly Violated, If You Will, Both The Spirit And Theletter Of Arms Control Agreements, I Think, That They Had Negotiated During The Period Of Detente.