The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

- Leland Stanford

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follo…

- Leland Stanford

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

- Leland Stanford

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

- Leland Stanford

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

- Leland Stanford

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 amo…

- Leland Stanford

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

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 …

- Leland Stanford

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital wi…

- Leland Stanford