Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

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 principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.