| “ | I sympathise with the rebellion, but not with the rebels. It may be that as the pages of history are turned, brighter futures and better times will come to Cuba. It may be that future years will see the island as it would be now, had England never lost it – a Cuba free and prosperous under just laws and a patriotic administration, throwing her ports open to the world | ” |
Winston Churchill, 1895.
Randolph Churchill: Winston Churchill companion, vol 1, 1967, p. 617–8