The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

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 scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.