Independence Cuba

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or cuba:

“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)