There are men who do not divide actions merely into those that are honest and those that are not, but create a third subdivision—that of law honesty; of that kind of honesty which consists in keeping clear of the penitentiary.
Roosevelt critiques a mindset that distinguishes between honest actions and those that merely avoid legal consequences.
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