Bernstein: "Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don't feel right spending your money stop.... There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler." Any answer? Charles Foster Kane: Yes--Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are days which occur in this climate, at almost any season of the year, wherein the world reaches its perfection, when the a...ir, the heavenly bodies, and the earth, make a harmony, as if nature would indulge her offspring; when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes, and we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba; when everything that has life gives signs of satisfaction, and the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil moments. These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather, which we distinguish by the name of Indian Summer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in o...ur America, they make much better cocktails.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main... sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of Stat...es. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with added ...weight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most ef...fulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last time we used battleships was in the Spanish-American War. And what did we get out of that? Cuba. And we gave that back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education is a necessity, it helps to understand life. Like that compagnero in Cuba who talked about politics, back when they were... on strike. He knew many things, that hijo de puta, and he unraveled the most confusing situations in a marvelous way. You could see each point in front of you on the line of his reasoning like rinsed laundry set up to dry; he explained things to you so clearly that you could grasp it like a good hunk of bread with your hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »