Provincial Government

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or government:

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

“I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success, can set up dictators.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)