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Former Governor of California

Leland Stanford was a prominent American politician and businessman who served as the 23rd Governor of California from 1861 to 1863. He was a leader in the development of the Central Pacific Railroad and played a significant role in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Stanford was also known for establishing Stanford University, which bears his name.

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Famous Leland Stanford Quotes

“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.”

Wealth Conditions Labor Mercy Organization Distribution Rapids Accumulation Distribution Of Wealth

Author:Leland Stanford

“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.”

Done Law Wealth Results Creation Labor Injustice Productions Agreement Employed Distribution Employers Labor And Capital

Book:Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

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

Labor Association Employers

Book:Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

“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.”

Has Beens Stills Important Values Interest Wealth Mankind Depends Labor Protection Legislation

Author:Leland Stanford

“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.”

Country Facts Conflict Conscious Labor Hammers Anvils Blacksmiths

Author:Leland Stanford

“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.”

Kind Persons Interest Plans Promise Labor Intelligent Regard Determined Cease Thoughtful Devices Capitalist Hearted Enterprising Kind Hearted

Author:Leland Stanford

“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.”

Mind Has Beens Political Natural Economy Products Conflict Labor Analysis Evident Acquaintance Political Economy Politics And Economics

Author:Leland Stanford

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

Results Labor Appearance Hype Seeming Deceptive Antagonism

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“The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.”

Years Has Beens Effort Advantage Labor

Book:Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

“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.”

Men Enjoy Class Modern Industry Benefits Labor Organization Relation Sufficient Organize Indispensable Employers

Book:Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

“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.”

Giving Country Return Resources Labor Controlled Laborers Power And Control

Author:Leland Stanford

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

Labor Operations Employers

Book:Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...

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

Mean Skills Labor Tools

Author:Leland Stanford

About the Author

Born: March 9, 1824
Died: June 21, 1893
Known for: Former Governor of California
Quotes: 29

Books & Sources

Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...Related source material

Government Loans on Real Estate: Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, in the United States Senate, March 10, 1890Related source material

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