“The general principles of any study you may learn by books at home; but the detail, the colour, the tone, the air, the life which makes it live in us, you must catch all these from those in whom it lives already.”
“No one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interests of everyone hang on the result.”
The Future of Freedom Foundation once again held one of the most important conferences in the history of the libertarian movement, “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties.” This conference was a follow-up to the fantastic conference “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties” that we held last year. (To order DVDs or CDs from our 2007 conference, click here.)
The conference was held on June 6-8, 2008, from Friday morning through Sunday evening. It featured some of the finest, most principled speakers in the country on the two burning issues of our time — foreign policy and civil liberties. This landmark conference was held at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia. Reston is one of the nicest areas of northern Virginia and, in fact, was named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live by Money magazine.
For the past several decades, U.S. foreign policy has included support of dictatorial regimes, brutal sanctions and embargoes, invasions and occupations, terrorist “blowback” against the United States, severe assaults on civil liberties and the Bill of Rights, suspension of habeas corpus, torture and “rendition” of detainees, indefinite detentions, and kangaroo military tribunals.
With ever-growing debacles in U.S. foreign policy and related monetary crises, there has never been a better time to come together to share ideas on restoring the limited-government, constitutional republic envisioned by our Founding Fathers. It is to that end that we are hosting this exciting and important conference. When you review our list of 20 speakers — libertarians, liberals, and conservatives — you will see that this is going to be one exciting intellectual experience you are not going to want to miss. To get a sense of how great this conference is going to be, take a look at the testimonials we received from attendees at last year's conference: Testimonials.
Attendees had the opportunity to listen to speeches by some of the greatest speakers on foreign policy and civil liberties, as well as the opportunity to mingle with them and other conference participants from all over the country who shared the same concern about the future direction of our nation and the same passionate commitment to our fundamental rights and freedoms.
