Neutrality Act may refer to:
- Proclamation of Neutrality by President George Washington in 1793
- Neutrality Act of 1794, outlaws military operations against nations with which the U.S. is at peace; still in force in amended form
- Neutrality Act of 1818
- Neutrality Acts of 1930s, a series of acts intended to prevent the U.S. from being drawn into a war
Famous quotes containing the words neutrality and/or act:
“My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us—which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)