Neutrality is a matter of conveniencenot of principle.

Its very neutrality is the best protection which a conquered South could have, and a moral triumph that would richly compensate it for a military defeat.

In what a puzzling neutrality is the poor soul that moves betwixt two such ponderous biases?

Its neutrality and protection for the common use of all nations is their only object.

Neutrality is a state, into which the busy passions of man cannot easily subside; and he who is in danger of the pangs of envy, is generally forced to recreate his imagination with an effort of comfort.

She was told at the beginning, as she was told in the end, that neutrality was our determined policy.

But besides this, it is in our own experience that the most sincere neutrality is not a sufficient guard against the depredations of nations at war.

Its religious neutrality is not a virtue, or if it is, it is a virtue of necessity.