A Foreign Policy of Freedom

This collection gathers Paul’s congressional speeches and columns on foreign policy across three decades, arguing for the non-interventionist tradition he traces to the Founders. He contends that entangling alliances, undeclared wars, and foreign aid breed blowback, debt, and diminished liberty at home. Borrowing Jefferson’s phrase for its title, the book makes a consistent case that genuine security comes from trade and diplomacy rather than empire, a position that long put him at odds with his own party.