Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.