A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship is a 2007 compilation by congressman Ron Paul

Ron Paul

Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...

 of his foreign policy

Foreign policy

A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...

 speeches to the U.S. House of Representatives over a 30-year period, published as an accompaniment to his campaign

Ron Paul presidential campaign, 2008

Ron Paul was a Republican Party primary candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election.Initial opinion polls during the first three quarters of 2007 showed Ron Paul consistently receiving support from 3% or less of those polled...

 for the presidency of the United States in the 2008 election. The first edition includes a foreword by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. It is published by the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education

Foundation for Rational Economics and Education

The Foundation for Rational Economics and Education is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation dedicated to public education on the principles of the U.S. Constitution, free-market economics, sound money, limited government, and foreign policy. It was founded in 1976 by U.S...

 of Lake Jackson, Texas

Lake Jackson, Texas

Lake Jackson is a city in Brazoria County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of a 2006 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, the city population was 27,614....

.

The cover depicts detail from the 1817 painting Declaration of Independence

Trumbull's Declaration of Independence

John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence is a 12-by-18-foot oil-on-canvas painting in the United States Capitol Rotunda that depicts the presentation of the draft of the Declaration of Independence to Congress...

, by John Trumbull

John Trumbull

John Trumbull was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War and was notable for his historical paintings...

, "courtesy of Architect of the Capitol".

Reception

Paul and the book were featured on a crowded Tonight Show on October 30, 2007, and host Jay Leno

Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno is an American stand-up comedian and television host.From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ,...

was able to get Paul to autograph his copy after the show. By March 2008 it had sold "a brisk 37,000 copies".

Contents

Item	Page	Length
Foreword	i	4
Introduction	v	2
1976	1	2
1980	3	2
1981	5	4
1982	9	12
1983	21	18
1984	39	18
While out of Congress	57	2
1997	59	8
1998	67	16
1999	83	46
2000	129	10
2001	139	46
2002	185	58
2003	243	38
2004	281	20
2005	301	42
2006	343	18
Summary	361	12