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)
“And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
This pantomime
Of compensating act and counter-act,
Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
My ablest time.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)