Leland Stanford
Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanfordwas an American tycoon, industrialist, politician, and a co-founderof Stanford University. Migrating to California from New York at the time of the Gold Rush, he became a successful merchant and wholesaler, and continued to build his business empire. He served one two-year term as governor of California after his election in 1861, and later eight years as senator from the state. As president of Southern Pacific Railroad and, beginning in 1861, Central Pacific, he had tremendous power in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 March 1824
CityWatervilet, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We deem it of the first importance that the education of both sexes shall be equally full and complete, varied only as nature dictates.
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 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.
A co-operative association designed to furnish labor for farming operations is clearly within the realm of practical achievement.
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.
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 man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.
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.
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
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 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.
Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.