Provincial Government

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or government:

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)