Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1762 |
| AUTHOR: | John Marshall (1755–1835) |
| 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 |
| SUBJECTS: | States rights |