Asymptosis

Okay, so the week happened to be more than two years ago. But it’s the best line of my week:

The old formulation defined conservatism as the desire to protect traditional values from the intrusion of big government; the new one seeks to promote traditional values through the intrusion of big government.

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4. “Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
5. Best Line of the Week

Asymptosis Politics, Rhetoric