Jon Voight Quotes

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

I went to the White House, and met the president.. We in trouble

I never did begin the war with the two Houses of Parliament... They began war upon me... if anybody will look at the dates of what happened... they will see clearly that they began these unhappy troubles, not I... therefore I tell you I am the martyr of the people.