People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

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

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.

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

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.

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

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.