Provincial Government

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or government:

    In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)