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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 855
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
QUOTATION: What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.
ATTRIBUTION: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech on the sub-Treasury, in the hall of the House of Representatives, Springfield, Illinois, December 26, 1839.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, p. 165 (1953).
SUBJECTS: History