"What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way."
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January 1, 1970

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Abraham Lincoln, speech on the sub-Treasury, in the hall of the House of Representatives, Springfield, Illinois (December 26, 1839); in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), vol. 1, p. 165.