Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

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.

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

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.