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).
