Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world ... Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view.

Peace surely is a good reason, yes. But there are other reasons too.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.