Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.


at a reception in Bangor, Maine, 25 August 1835


Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.