We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

The wolves wait for you, little lamb.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

Adversity is preparation for greatness.

Let's start with what we can be thankful for, and get our mind into that vibration, and then watch the good that starts to come, because one thought leads to another thought.

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

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