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    Leland Stanford

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    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. ↗


    — Leland Stanford

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


    — Leland Stanford

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    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. ↗


    — Leland Stanford

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


    — Leland Stanford

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


    — Leland Stanford

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    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. ↗


    — Leland Stanford

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    The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems. ↗


    — Leland Stanford

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    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. ↗


    — Leland Stanford

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    The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized. ↗


    — Leland Stanford

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


    — Leland Stanford

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    This engine is preserved at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. Career and politics
    After being admitted to the bar in 1848 Stanford migrated with many other settlers moving to Port Washington Wisconsin where he began law practice with Wesley Pierce. Due to large winter storm floods the governor was said to have needed to row in a boat to his own inauguration.

    As president of Southern Pacific and beginning in 1861 Central Pacific he had tremendous power in the region and a lasting impact on California. 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.

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