Various degrees of moral guilt are involved in the multitudinous actions of this kind; but, after all, directly or indirectly, every such case comes dangerously near the border-line of the commandment which, in forbidding theft, certainly by implication forbids the connivance at theft, or the failure to punish it.
In this quote, Roosevelt discusses the moral complexities surrounding actions that may indirectly support theft or corruption.
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