Edwin Markham Quotes

Each wants to be free, but none can succeed in obtaining freedom unless all are permitted to enjoy it

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

We in the region will all have security or none of us will have security.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

I am confident that if we stand for the hope and freedom of others we will make our own freedom more secure.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

You can only be free if I am free.

The very freedom we seek cannot be attained until we chain some of our exaggerated individuality.

We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood.

We have to maintain inviolate the great doctrine of the inherent right of popular self-government; to reconcile the largest liberty of the individual citizen with complete security of the public order; to render cheerful obedience to the laws of the land, to unite in enforcing their execution, and to frown indignantly on all combinations to resist them; to harmonize a sincere and ardent devotion to the institutions of religious faith with the most universal religious toleration; to preserve the rights of all by causing each to respect those of the other; to carry forward every social improvement to the uttermost limit of human perfectibility

Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.