Leland Stanford quotes - page 2

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. (Leland Stanford)
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. 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