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Top 20 Tony Horwitz Quotes (2025 Update)

Tony Horwitz Quote: “Even aimless journeys have a purpose...”

1. “Even aimless journeys have a purpose...”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.”

2. “I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.”

3. “Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “If there was an overriding message in his journals, it was that people, the world over, were alike in their essential nature – even if they ate their enemies, made love in public, worshipped idols, or, like Aborigines, cared not at all for material goods.”

4. “If there was an overriding message in his journals, it was that people, the world over, were alike in their essential nature – even if they ate their enemies, made love in public, worshipped idols, or, like Aborigines, cared not at all for material goods.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “There are people one knows and people one doesn’t. One shouldn’t cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”

5. “There are people one knows and people one doesn’t. One shouldn’t cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “I couldn’t think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.”

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

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.”

7. “The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of “nostalgia.”

8. “Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of “nostalgia.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “Like so much in Atlanta, Stone Mountain had become a bland and inoffensive consumable: the Confederacy as hood ornament. Not for the first time, though more deeply than ever before, I felt a twinge of affinity for the neo-Confederates I’d met in my travels. Better to remember Dixie and debate its philosophy than to have its largest shrine hijacked for Coca-Cola ads and MTV songs.”

9. “Like so much in Atlanta, Stone Mountain had become a bland and inoffensive consumable: the Confederacy as hood ornament. Not for the first time, though more deeply than ever before, I felt a twinge of affinity for the neo-Confederates I’d met in my travels. Better to remember Dixie and debate its philosophy than to have its largest shrine hijacked for Coca-Cola ads and MTV songs.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “When Union litter-bearers climbed out of their trenches, four days after the assault, they found only two men still alive amongst the piles of stinking corpses. One burial party discovered a dead Yankee with a diary in his pocket, the last entry of which read: “June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.”

10. “When Union litter-bearers climbed out of their trenches, four days after the assault, they found only two men still alive amongst the piles of stinking corpses. One burial party discovered a dead Yankee with a diary in his pocket, the last entry of which read: “June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “Andersonville lay on American soil and saw the death of 13,000 Americans in American custody.”

11. “Andersonville lay on American soil and saw the death of 13,000 Americans in American custody.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.”

12. “A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “I’ve been here in Richmond for six years and I still don’t get it. To me, having the principal Richmond monuments dedicated to the Lost Cause is like saying we’re dedicated to no hope, no future. It’s like having a monument to unrequited love.”

13. “I’ve been here in Richmond for six years and I still don’t get it. To me, having the principal Richmond monuments dedicated to the Lost Cause is like saying we’re dedicated to no hope, no future. It’s like having a monument to unrequited love.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “Even now as I write, they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in his diary on December 2. “This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind, which will come soon.”

14. “Even now as I write, they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in his diary on December 2. “This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind, which will come soon.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “Seventeen evangelicals, plus five of their wives and three children, disembarked at Tahiti in 1797. Eight missionaries fled on the next boat out, to Sydney. One of the remaining missionaries married a native woman and left the church.”

15. “Seventeen evangelicals, plus five of their wives and three children, disembarked at Tahiti in 1797. Eight missionaries fled on the next boat out, to Sydney. One of the remaining missionaries married a native woman and left the church.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “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 feel all warm inside about that?”

16. “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 feel all warm inside about that?”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “In their attitude to history, some New Zealanders resembled die-hard white Southerners in America, who enshrined Confederate leaders and symbols without acknowledging the offense this might cause to others. Sheila.”

17. “In their attitude to history, some New Zealanders resembled die-hard white Southerners in America, who enshrined Confederate leaders and symbols without acknowledging the offense this might cause to others. Sheila.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. “Dad would tell us, ‘Dat’s for Catholics’, or ‘Dat’s for Lutherans, not us,’ and said that if he wanted to talk to God he could do it in the fields.”

18. “There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. “Dad would tell us, ‘Dat’s for Catholics’, or ‘Dat’s for Lutherans, not us,’ and said that if he wanted to talk to God he could do it in the fields.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “The world of the rural poor remained what it had been for generations: a day’s walk in radius, a tight, well-trod loop between home, field, church, and, finally, a crowded family grave plot.”

19. “The world of the rural poor remained what it had been for generations: a day’s walk in radius, a tight, well-trod loop between home, field, church, and, finally, a crowded family grave plot.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.”

20. “John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.”

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Tony Horwitz Quote: “You know what I hate?′ she said. ‘When people say that history repeats itself. That’s the scariest thing I can think of.”

21. “You know what I hate?′ she said. ‘When people say that history repeats itself. That’s the scariest thing I can think of.”

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