Es ist kein Schwert das schaerfer schiert, Als wenn ein Baur zum Herren wird.

(There is no sword that cuts sharper, Than if a peasant becomes master.) – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus

This past month, we [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2009/03/13/peasant-as-master/feed/ 0 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/10/30/it%e2%80%99s-time-for-wilsonianism-to-go/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/10/30/it%e2%80%99s-time-for-wilsonianism-to-go/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:50:13 +0000 J.K. Baltzersen http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/10/30/it%e2%80%99s-time-for-wilsonianism-to-go/ Ron Paul represents a very real chance of returning to the earlier republican traditions of the United States.

Rhetorically, the Grand Old Party is the party in America for small and limited government. Not so in practical politics. In practical politics, the GOP stands for something quite different from small, limited government. For instance, the GOP stands [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/10/30/it%e2%80%99s-time-for-wilsonianism-to-go/feed/ 4 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/09/17/world-government-for-liberty/ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/09/17/world-government-for-liberty/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:30:13 +0000 J.K. Baltzersen http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/09/17/world-government-for-liberty/ A world government, be its center at the banks of the Potomac or the East River, with the capacity to give you all you want, will also have the capacity to take it all away.

U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater told us:

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to [...]]]> http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/09/17/world-government-for-liberty/feed/ 1