Land State Provincial

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

    Those who till their land will have plenty of food, but those who follow worthless pursuits have no sense.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:11.

    Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.
    —Anonymous Russian. Quoted in Count Münster, Political Sketches of the State of Europe 1814-1867 (1868)

    The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)