The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.
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True neutrality is often impractical in real political conflicts.
In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could w…
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinkmanship - the art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss.
We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations …