A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

The question is, we have a particular problem. How many religions are there in the United States? How are they going to get on together? One way, which has been the usual way historically, is to fight it out, as in France in the sixteenth century. That's a possibility.

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.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

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

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.