Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

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

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

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

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.