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

The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.

How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them he was a secularist of the worst kind. But Madison could get Jefferson's bill passed because the Baptists, the Presbyterians, and smaller sects who were excluded in New England and in the South got together for their own protection.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

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

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

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