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Teddy Roosevelt: “Such a result in turn tends to throw the decent man and the wilful wrongdoer into close association, and in the end to…”

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Such a result in turn tends to throw the decent man and the wilful wrongdoer into close association, and in the end to drag down the former to the latter's level; for the man who becomes a lawbreaker in one way unhappily tends to lose all respect for law and to be willing to break it in many ways.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt warns that strict laws can lead to a breakdown of respect for the law among both decent individuals and wrongdoers.

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