The standard by which international, and even domestic, morality is judged, must vary for different countries under widely different conditions, for exactly the same reasons that it must vary for different periods of the world's history.
Roosevelt discusses the variability of moral standards based on historical and cultural contexts.
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I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
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