Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1762
AUTHOR:
John Marshall (17551835)
QUOTATION:
No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
ATTRIBUTION:
Chief Justice JOHN MARSHALL, McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 403 (1819).