Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

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.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

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

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.