| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | 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 |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Abraham Lincoln Collection | | |
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