Leland Stanford Quotes

• 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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  Memorable, Men, Rights

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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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.

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  Selfish, Men, Views

  "Social insight rings true 125 years on" by Lee Altenberg, "Nature", vol. 490, p. 487, October 25, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Country, Giving, Return

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

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  Sex, Equality, Rights

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

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  Mean, Skills, Tools

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• 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.

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  Political, Mind, Analysis

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• 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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  Skills, Humanity, Inheritance

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

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  Wealth, Advantage, Exaggerated

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

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  Men, Office, Becoming

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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

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  Country, Reason Why, Should

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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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  Taken, Light, Capacity

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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

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  Association, Employers, Labor

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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

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  Operations, Employers, Labor

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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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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  Agreement, Law, Done

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• 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.

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  Men, Rights, Should Have

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

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  Real, Two, Conflict

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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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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  Country, Way, Wealth

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• 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.

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  Organization, Distribution Of Wealth, Mercy

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

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  Hype, Appearance, Results

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• 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.

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  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Promise

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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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  Unrest, May, Improvement

  Leland Stanford (1890). “Government Loans on Real Estate: Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, in the United States Senate, March 10, 1890”

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• 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.

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  Spurs, Would Be, Reason

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• 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.

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  Individual, Members, Enjoy

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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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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  Years, Effort, Advantage

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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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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  Important, Wealth, Protection

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