"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."

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"Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders."

George William Norris, American Politician

Neutrality, Righteousness

"I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization."

Peter Jennings, Canadian Journalist

Neutrality, Right

"Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness."

Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian Lawyer

Neutrality, Weakness

"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."

Colin Firth, British Actor

Neutrality,

"Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it."

George Washington, American President

Neutrality, Independence, Policy, Strategy

"Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Neutrality, Controversy, Promise

"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."

Louis D. Brandeis, American Judge

Neutrality, Sin

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"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."

Desire

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

World

"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

Light

"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."

Wisdom

"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."

Government

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

Wealth

"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

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"Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders."

"I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization."

"Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness."

"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."

"Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it."

"Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy."

"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."

Explore more quotes by Louis D. Brandeis

"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."

"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

"The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities."

"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."

"There are no shortcuts in evolution."

"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."