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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”