W. F. Buckley is notorious for using this phrase (but not only). this is from an exchange of letters to the editor of the NYTimes:

He [Gary Wills] seems to be saying that anyone who failed to reach out to protest an anti-Semitic utterance should be estopped by history from sainthood, a constriction that, mutatis mutandis, would make difficult our canonization of Abraham Lincoln, given his declarations on Negro inferiority; to say nothing of the elevation of American presidents who actually owned slaves.


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