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

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

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

There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

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.

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