Interview with the New York Herald
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)
Jay Gould: Frases em inglês
As quoted in the Commercial and Financial Chronicle (25 March 1882)
“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
Frequently attributed, often in the context of strikebreaking activities during the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886. See for example Philip Sheldon Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 2 - Page 50 (1975). A contemporary source has not been identified. Varying forms of the quotation circulated in the labor press as early as 1893, with or without the attribution to Gould.
Attributed
Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education"
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)
Letter to Silas H. H. Clark (1876) regarding the Great Sioux War, quoted in Union Pacific: 1862-1893 by Maury Klein
Also quoted in The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (1986) by Maury Klein
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)
Interview with the New York Herald
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)
Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education
Jay Gould : A Character Sketch (1893)