Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or government:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Whenever the society is dissolved, it is certain the government of that society cannot remain ... that being as impossible, as for the frame of a house to subsist when the materials of it are scattered and dissipated by a whirlwind, or jumbled into a confused heap by an earthquake.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)