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.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

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