Leland Stanford

“The children of California shall be our children.”

“A man will never be a big man unless he is a good man.”

“The rights of the people are not to be violated, even by a constitutional convention.”

“I have no hostility to the laboring man. I am a laboring man myself.”

“The legislature of a State has all the powers of a parliament of Great Britain, except where it is restrained by the written Constitution.”

“Judges have been in the habit of invading the province of the jury, of telling them what the law is.”

“The presence of the Chinese is a great evil.”

“The employee is regarded by the employer merely as an instrument of profit.”