Land State Provincial

Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:

    “My country, ‘tis of thee,
    Sweet land of liberty,
    Of thee I sing;
    Land where my fathers died,
    Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
    From every mountain-side
    Let freedom ring!”
    —Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895)

    “If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)