The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association. — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems. — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
