John Rawls — "The concept of justice as fairness is a form of social contract theory."

"The primary goods are things that every rational man is presumed to want."

"The liberties of equal citizenship must not be sacrificed to political bargaining."

"The idea of public reason is not a limit on individual thought, but a limit on how citizens are to present their political arguments to one another."

"The principles of justice are meant to reconcile liberty and equality."

"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."