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The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.

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[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

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

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I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

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An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. . . . A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

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We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

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There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.

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