Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 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.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
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.
Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.