"A just society is a society that respects persons as free and equal, and that protects their fundamental rights and liberties."

"The principles of justice are designed for a society of free and equal citizens."

"The idea of the original position is to set up a fair procedure so that any principles agreed to will be just."

"The fact of reasonable pluralism is a permanent feature of a democratic culture."

"The aim of political philosophy is to articulate and to make explicit those shared notions and principles that are latent in the common sense of a democratic society."