Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.