Leland Stanford

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow…

— Leland Stanford

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has…

— Leland Stanford

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

— Leland Stanford

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the…

— Leland Stanford

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

— Leland Stanford

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary…

— Leland Stanford

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle…

— Leland Stanford

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

— Leland Stanford

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry…

— Leland Stanford

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not…

— Leland Stanford

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

— Leland Stanford

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution…

— Leland Stanford

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

— Leland Stanford

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the…

— Leland Stanford

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize…

— Leland Stanford

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent,…

— Leland Stanford

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and…

— Leland Stanford

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights…

— Leland Stanford

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is…

— Leland Stanford

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other…

— Leland Stanford

I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall…

— Leland Stanford

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of…

— Leland Stanford

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

— Leland Stanford

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

— Leland Stanford

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

— Leland Stanford