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  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
September 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM

FFF Daily - September 1, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Growing federal power — driven by legislation, validated by Supreme Court decisions, and accelerated by presidential ambition — has eroded the rule of la…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 31, 2026 at 4:42 PM

FFF Daily - August 31, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Increasingly, government agents are being taught—and the public conditioned to accept—that refusal to immediately comply with a government agent’s command i…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM

FFF Daily - August 29, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Unfortunately, few Americans realize that the U.S. government’s pattern of reckless bombing began long before George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. –…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 28, 2026 at 6:00 PM

FFF Daily - August 28, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ That is how the architecture of authoritarian government becomes permanent: Build the surveillance system. Build the detention centers. Expand the raids. No…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM

FFF Daily - August 26, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ As wisdom without courage is futile, even so faith without hope is nothing worth; for hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil. – Martin Luther …
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM

FFF Daily - August 26, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ This meant, Kohn said, that in America what defined an American was not language, religion, ethnicity, or family background but rather anyone who joined …
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 25, 2026 at 4:54 PM

FFF Daily - August 25, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ There is no reason to expect politicians to learn from mistakes that impoverish others while enriching their reelection campaigns. – James Bovard "Why A…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM

FFF Daily - August 24, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ It is neither constitutional nor the proper role of government to have anything to do with housing, real estate, home building, mortgages, down payments, or…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 22, 2026 at 11:01 AM

FFF Daily - August 22, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Higgs has repeatedly reshaped how scholars and citizens understand the relationship among government expansion, economic crises, and individual lib…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 21, 2026 at 11:01 AM

FFF Daily - August 21, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves. – Henry Ward Beecher ** HORNBERGER'S BLOG --------------------------------------…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM

FFF Daily - August 20, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Pumping more money into a nation's economy merely helps some people at the expense of others. It must, by its very nature, send prices up higher than they…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM

FFF Daily - August 19, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from other nations. – George Washington, Farewell Address ([link removed])…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM

FFF Daily - August 18, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The foundation on which all [our State constitutions] are built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal …
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM

FFF Daily - August 17, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Willing war means willing all the evils that are organically bound up with it. – Randolph Bourne, A War Diary ([link removed]) [1917] ** HORNBERGER…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM

We Want Freedom — Genuine Freedom

** ------------------------------------------------------------ I’ve recently been watching YouTube documentaries about the enormous surge in American inventions — the Gilded Age — which is my favorite time in history. It was an amazing period — a small beacon of light shining through the darkne…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 10, 2026 at 11:32 AM

We Want Freedom — Genuine Freedom

** ------------------------------------------------------------ I’ve recently been watching YouTube documentaries about the enormous surge in American inventions — the Gilded Age — which is my favorite time in history. It was an amazing period — a small beacon of light shining through the darkne…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 8, 2026 at 11:43 AM

FFF Daily - August 8, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ After all is said and done, it's obvious that tariffs are expensive, and Americans are paying the price. – J.D. Tuccille, "Trump's Tariffs Will Cost ([…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM

FFF Daily - August 7, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The creed of libertarianism is the non-aggression axiom: everyone should be free from aggression against his person and property as long as he respects the p…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM

FFF Daily - August 6, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The martial spirit leads us to embrace the idea of the nation as an army meant to meet challenges and attain specified, communal ends, rather than a home i…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM

FFF Daily - August 5, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ For "community" (except as it is freely created by free individual persons), community conceived as a principle of social order prior and superior to the …
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM

FFF Daily - August 4, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ At no time, at no place, in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a d…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM

FFF Daily - August 3, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interes…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
August 1, 2026 at 11:01 AM

FFF Daily - August 1, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The US government in this situation is no better than a hoodlum who mugs you on a sidewalk and then tosses a couple bucks at your feet. – Adam Dick, "A…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 31, 2026 at 3:26 PM

FFF Daily - July 31, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ** HORNBERGER'S BLOG --------…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 30, 2026 at 9:19 PM

FFF Daily - July 30, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Everything the government runs is bankrupt. Medicare is broke. Medicaid is broke. The post office is broke. Amtrak is broke. Social Security is a bigger pon…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM

FFF Daily - July 29, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Above all, it behooves us Americans ... to repress, and to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM

FFF Daily - July 28, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. – Thomas Paine, Reflections on Titles [1775] ** HORNBERGE…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM

FFF Daily - July 27, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** MONDAY, JULY 27, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 25, 2026 at 11:01 AM

FFF Daily - July 25, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ With his newest tariffs on Canadian imports, Trump is simply proving once again that his trade war is a failure. The time to stop fighting is now. – Eri…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 24, 2026 at 11:02 AM

FFF Daily - July 24, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** FRIDAY, JULY 24, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn ** HORNBERGER'S BLOG ----------------------------------------…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM

FFF Daily - July 23, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Since 1913 when the Fed first went into action, the US dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power. Thus the savings of generations of Americans have been w…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 22, 2026 at 3:11 PM

FFF Daily - July 22, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ We certainly owe much of our liberty today, and the fact that we do not need, and I hope never will need, to resort to armed resistance, to the fact that s…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 21, 2026 at 2:05 PM

FFF Daily - July 21, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays [1580] ** HORNBERGER'S BLOG -…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 20, 2026 at 3:17 PM

FFF Daily - July 20, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** MONDAY, JULY 20, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays [1580] ** HORNBERGER'S BLOG --…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 19, 2026 at 1:32 AM

FFF Daily - July 18, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Engaging in intervention or war for the sake of liberty and freedom is inherently contradictory. – Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall, "War: The …
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM

FFF Daily - July 17, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Freedom is important in order that all the different individuals can make full use of the particular circumstances of which only they know. We therefore never…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 16, 2026 at 3:53 PM

FFF Daily - July 16, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appoi…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM

FFF Daily - July 15, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ We should remember that in an area controlled by such a process as national socialism, or any similar philosophy of governmental direction, the question an…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 14, 2026 at 3:47 PM

FFF Daily - July 14, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The state lies in all the tongues of good and evil, and whatever it says is lies, and whatever it has, it has stolen, everything it is, is false, it bites wi…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM

FFF Daily - July 13, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** MONDAY, JULY 13, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. –JLouis Dembitz Brandeis, Whitney v.…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM

FFF Daily - July 11, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ To many Americans of this period, peacetime standing armies posed a threat not only because they could be used by the state to overthrow liberty, but becau…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 10, 2026 at 11:01 AM

FFF Daily - July 10, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The federal government, in guiding the economic destiny of the country, must be staffed largely with those who are unaware of how little they know, who have …
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM

FFF Daily - July 9, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Freedom, as people enjoyed it in the democratic countries of Western civilization in the years of the old liberalism’s triumph, was not a product of constit…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM

FFF Daily - July 8, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Mental health is the ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs. – M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled ([link removed]) [1978] ** HORN…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM

FFF Daily - July 7, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ We can do more for other men by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. – Francois Fenelon ** HORNBERGER'S BLOG ----------------…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM

FFF Daily - July 6, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** MONDAY, JULY 6, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The revolution in the United States was the result of a mature, reflective preference for liberty and not a vague, indefinite instinct for independence. It di…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM

FFF Daily - July 4, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ A government with the authority to prohibit or restrict the sale and use of alcohol has the same authority to prohibit or restrict any substance or activity…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 3, 2026 at 1:54 PM

FFF Daily - July 3, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution p…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM

FFF Daily - July 2, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. – Thomas Jefferson ** HORNBERGER'S BLOG ---------------------…
  The Future of Freedom Foundation · [email protected]
July 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM

FFF Daily - July 1, 2026

View this email in your browser ([link removed]) ** WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------ Roman Stoicism had been developed in times of despotism as a philosophy of lonely and courageous souls who had recognized the redeeming power of philosophi…