Leland Stanford Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”