Leland Stanford American Quotations

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.

We deem it of the first importance that the education of both sexes shall be equally full and complete, varied only as nature dictates.

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.

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.

I never saw a woman to come into one of our mining camps in California but her mere presence effected a change in the conduct of all the men there.

A co-operative association designed to furnish labor for farming operations is clearly within the realm of practical achievement.