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

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

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

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.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.