Governor Jerry Brown

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    “[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Who talks of Plato’s spindle;
    What set it whirling round?
    Eternity may dwindle,
    Time is unwound,
    Dan and Jerry Lout
    Change their loves about.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”
    —John Brown (1800–1859)