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:

  Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation fi

• Leland Stanford:

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

• Leland Stanford:

  The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the cap

• Leland Stanford:

  The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His prod

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  The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the labor

• Leland Stanford:

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

• Leland Stanford:

  The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come thro

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

• William Cobbett:

  Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.