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)
“of artists dying in childbirth, wise-women charred at the stake,
centuries of books unwritten piled behind these shelves;
and we still have to stare into the absence
of men who would not, women who could not, speak
to our life—this still unexcavated hole
called civilization, this act of translation, this half-world.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)