"John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!"
— John Marshall

January 1, 1970

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Apocryphal remark attributed to Andrew Jackson upon hearing the decision of the U.S.Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia (1832), attributed in The American Conflict, A History of the Great Rebellion (1866) by Horace Greeley, vol. 1, p. 106; though thought to summarize Jackson's attitude, the attribution is disputed in They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1989) by Paul F. Boller Jr., which quotes Jackson as making remarks similar in essence, in a le