Leland Stanford quotes

Leland Stanford was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist who played a key role in the development of the American railroad industry. As governor of California and a founder of Stanford University, his legacy extends to both politics and education. He is remembered for his significant influence on the economic and academic growth of the United States. Here are 32 of his 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. (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 view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. View quote
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There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. View quote
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Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers. (Leland Stanford)
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer. View quote
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Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association. View quote
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All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Leland Stanford

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Occupation: American Businessman
Born: March 9, 1824
Died: June 21, 1893
Quotes count: 32