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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.

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Leland Stanford
Age: 69 †
Born: 1824
Born: March 9
Died: 1893
Died: June 21
Businessperson
Former Governor Of California
Politician
Watervliet (town)
New York
Stanford
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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.
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The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.
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Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
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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.
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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.
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All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
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