Of this feeling the vague and somewhat clumsy phrase, "national honor and vital interests," has in the past been the expression; for its very indeterminateness reserved to conscience in every case the decision,-"May another judge for me here, or must I be bound by my own sense of right?"
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
Many questions that have been raised upon Milton or Shakspeare, questions relating to so subtile a subject as the flux and reflux of human passion, lie far above the region of ordinary capacities; and the indeterminateness or even carelessness of the judgment is transferred by a common confusion to its objects.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
The apparent indeterminateness of the future, upon which some advocates of free will rely, is merely a result of our ignorance.
"Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy"
Bertrand Russell