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.

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

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

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.