Leland Stanford

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.

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.

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

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

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.