Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or government:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)