The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.

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Declaration of Principles

The United States was founded on the principles of individual freedom, free markets, private property, and limited government. As the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution reflect, individuals have the natural and God-given right to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. It is the duty of government to protect, not destroy, these inherent and inalienable rights.

Thus, for well over a century, the American people said "No" to such anti-free-market government policies as income taxation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, immigration controls, economic regulations, drug laws, gun control, public schooling, and foreign wars. Despite the tragic exception of slavery, the result was the most prosperous, healthy, literate, and compassionate society in history. Unfortunately, in the 20th century, our country has moved in an opposite direction. Operating through the IRS, DEA, ATF, INS, FDA, FTC , and a multitude of other bureaucracies, our government has waged immoral and destructive wars on our freedom, our property, and our well-being.

It has seduced us into believing that we cannot live without this political paternalism. It has weakened our moral fiber and our sense of self-reliance, self-esteem, voluntary charity, and community. It has damaged our families. It has hurt the poorest people in society. It has turned foreigners into enemies. It has trampled on our Constitution. It has undermined our commitment to the moral foundations of freedom and to the benefits of free markets.

The time has come for us to reevaluate our relationship to our government — to repeal, not reform, these immoral and destructive government programs — to recapture our commitment to the principles of free markets, private property, voluntary charity, and limited government that made our nation great — and to believe in ourselves again. It is time for us once again to lead the world to the highest reaches of freedom in history. It is to this end that The Future of Freedom Foundation is dedicated.

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What We Do

All of FFF’s activities revolve around the spreading of ideas on freedom. Our principal activities to advance our mission are:

1. Freedom Daily
FFF’s monthly journal of uncompromising essays on liberty. A
print subscription (12 monthly issues) is $25; $40 for two years. An email subscription is $15 per year. While subscribers receive their issues of Freedom Daily during the month of publication, each month's essays are posted on our website several months after publication.

2. FFF’s Email Update
Every day our subscribers are provided via email with a quote for the day, FFF's hard-hitting, no-compromise commentaries on current events, links to pertinent news articles, FFF Hot News, and notices of upcoming events. A subscription to FFF's Email Update is free.

3. Op-Eds
FFF’s uncompromising op-eds have been shared with people all over the United States and Latin America in some 800 newspapers, including some 100 Hispanic newspapers. Also posted on our website is an overall list of the op-eds that have been published along with the name of the newspaper that has published each op-ed. To have your newspaper or publication added to FFF’s op-ed list, send us your request along with a mailing address, email address, or fax number.

4. Web Audio/Video
We periodically post short Audio Commentaries on our website on current issues of the day.

5. Vienna Coffee Club
FFF’s coffee club meets periodically in the Washington D.C. area, providing a forum for the discussion of free-market ideas. Tapes of these events are available for purchase, and FFF also posts them on a rotating Web Audio/Video section of our website.

6. Books
FFF has published eight books on various aspects of freedom: Four of the books have been edited by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger and consist of essays from Freedom Daily: The Dangers of Socialized Medicine;
The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration; The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars; The Tyranny of Gun Control; and FFF’s newest book, Liberty, Security, and the War on Terrorism. The other four books have been authored by Sheldon Richman: Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families; Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax; and Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State..

7. Lectures and seminars
FFF periodically conducts seminars on the principles of liberty in various parts of the country. Freedom Daily contributors are also popular speakers at supper clubs, discussion groups, and college campuses. Contact us about having a speech, lecture, or seminar in your area.

8. Radio appearances
FFF personnel are often interviewed on radio stations throughout the United States.

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