"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality."
— Dante Alighieri

January 1, 1970

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See Canticle I (Inferno), Canto 3, vv 35-42 for the notion of neutrality and where JFK might have paraphrased from.