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

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

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

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.

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

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.