William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| Part I |
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| Neutrality |
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| 425. Neutrality is something else than Indifferency; and yet of kin to it too. | 1 |
| 426. A Judge ought to be Indifferent, and yet he cannot be said to be Neutral. | 2 |
| 427. The one being to be Even in Judgment, and the other not to meddle at all. | 3 |
| 428. And where it is Lawful, to be sure, it is best to be Neutral. | 4 |
| 429. He that espouses Parties, can hardly divorce himself from their Fate; and more fall with their Party than rise with it. | 5 |
| 430. A wise Neuter joins with neither; but uses both, as his honest Interest leads him. | 6 |
| 431. A Neuter only has room to be a Peace-maker: For being of neither side, he has the Means of mediating a Reconciliation of both. | 7 |
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