Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or government:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)