America Quote by Tony Horwitz

“I came here from Kansas,” he announced to his captive. “This is a slave state. I want to free all the Negroes in this…

— Tony Horwitz

During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he…

— Tony Horwitz

“The way I see it," King said, "your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to…

— Tony Horwitz

Even aimless journeys have a purpose.

— Tony Horwitz

“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg shot off.…

— Tony Horwitz

“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about…

— Tony Horwitz

“You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.”

— Tony Horwitz

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

— Tony Horwitz

“Cook,” the historian Bernard Smith speculates, “increasingly realised that wherever he went he was spreading the curses much more liberally than the benefits of…

— Tony Horwitz

“My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.”

— Tony Horwitz

Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial…

— Tony Horwitz

“At one stop in New Zealand, an Englishman bartered for sex. He was presented with a boy; when he complained, he was presented with…

— Tony Horwitz