The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.
Jose Ortega y GassetLiberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.
Jose Ortega y Gasset