Public Enemy

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    Texas is a heaven for men and dogs but hell for women and oxen.
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Liberalism—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.
    José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)