Leland Stanford Quotes

• When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

  Leland Stanford

• There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

  Leland Stanford

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

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

  Leland Stanford

• The rights of one s*x, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other s*x, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

  Leland Stanford

• The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

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

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• The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

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• The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

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

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• 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.

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

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• The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

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• Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

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• Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

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• Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

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

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

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• It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

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• In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

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Leland Stanford (32)

Birth:	8th March, 1924
Death:	21st June, 1993
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Founder, Industrialist, Politician

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