We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

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

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

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.