Leland Stanford Quotes

• In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

  Leland Stanford

• 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

• I want, in this school, that one s*x shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their s*x.

  Leland Stanford

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

  Leland Stanford

• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Leland Stanford

• From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

  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, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

  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 an interest in the other.

  Leland Stanford

• Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

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• All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

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• Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

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• A man’s sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

  Leland Stanford

Leland Stanford (32)

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

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