Quote by Henry Kissinger
The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will a

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations. – Henry Kissinger

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