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Leland Stanford

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

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

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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

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"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

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"The strong man is strongest when alone."

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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 great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."
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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."
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"Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative."
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