The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.