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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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. – Henry Kissinger

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The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. – Norman Tebbit

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A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. – Frank Dane

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That mans the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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