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

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

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.

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

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.

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

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.