Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

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

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.

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 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.