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.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

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

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

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

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

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.