Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or government:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)