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“Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.”

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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

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First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized…

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Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

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

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If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by…

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Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing,…

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The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

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Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if…

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When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements…

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“Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or…

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

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There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to…

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The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We…

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“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.”

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Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He…

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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal…

Abraham Lincoln

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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little…

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The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

Lawrence Bender

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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions…

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