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 no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)