But I ask the reader to remember always that I
am talking of words, not as they are used in talk or novels, but as they
will be used, and have been used, in warrants and certificates, and Acts
of Parliament. ... But it is by no means always to the interest of governments
or officials to hang the right man. The fact that they often do stretch
words in order to cover cases is the whole foundation of having any fixed
laws or free institutions at all....And the vaguer the charge is
the less they will be able to disprove it.
-Eugenics and Other Evils (1922)
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