All right, we're set to go. I'm Jacob Hornberger, President of the Future of Freedom Foundation. I want to welcome you all to this evening's broadcast for as part of our conference restoring civil liberties.

If you haven't seen the earlier broadcast, I highly recommend it. This has turned out to be one of the best conferences we've ever held at FFF.

And what's fascinating is that each of the speakers were given card launch to talk about any aspect of civil liberties they wanted.

And there's been virtually no overlap. And those videos are on the website of the Future of Freedom Foundation.

As most of you know, our mission at FFF has long been to present the principal case for liberty. We have an active website 32 years of articles and conferences and videos and other presentations presenting this principal case for the libertarian philosophy.

Tonight, if you have a question for our guest, please use the Q&A button. You type it out. It'll come to me. I'll ask Ron what the questions are later on.

Now, we're going to wrap everything up by around 10 till seven. That's when Ron's last question or last comments going to be made. And then I'll say a bit of due to the crowd. We got one more presentation in this series. And that's me next Tuesday night, same time, same station.

We're really honored. Please tonight to have Ron Paul. Ron's actually one of my real life heroes in this libertarian movement.

I think if there's anybody in the libertarian movement that doesn't need an introduction is Ron Paul, but he served in Congress for many years, as y'all know, and he was the presidential candidate in 2008, 2012, both very exciting races.

I don't think there's anyone in the libertarian movement who has exposed or inspired more people to explore libertarianism or to join the libertarian movement than Ron Paul.

And if you're not familiar, which I'm sure you are, but if you're not with the work of the Ron Paul Institute, Dan McAdams and Ron Paul are just doing unbelievably fantastic work to bring us a society based on peace, prosperity and liberty.

Ron, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to share your perspectives with us tonight. It's a great honor for us. Please take it away.

Very good. And thank you very much for the introduction and the invitation. This is just great, but I don't know.

You've been off a big job here and the job is restoring civil liberties. I'll tell you we need a lot of that.

And you've been in that battle for a long time and having an impact. But this is going to continue for a bit, because I see establishing the principles of civil liberties.

That's been ongoing for a long time. I think as long as we can find record of history that we find that that is talked about.

Even before Bill Bittacle times before the Old Testament, they did they did talk about this. Hammurabi had a code and there was a hint that they understood a little bit about civil liberties.

I was fascinated by understanding a little bit more about Hammurabi is because he had, I think it was 282 laws he passed and more than half of them had to do with contracts.

You say, well, is that a civil liberties yet certainly is living up to your promises and identify it and letting people understand that is certainly important.

That's a long time ago. And that was 300 years before the before the 10th Commandments were written. So I think that people have thought about it and it comes and goes and certainly my lifetime was the majority of that life was spent in the 20th century.

That was not a good, good century for protecting freedoms and individual liberty and peace because you know I was born in 35 the depression was roaring.

I do remember the beginning of the World War II and the end of World War II and the Korean War and on and on.

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