"The concept of a person as free and equal is a fundamental idea in justice as fairness."

"Justice as fairness provides a framework for public practical reasoning."

"The problem of justice is to find principles that can be publicly justified to all members of society."

"The point of the veil of ignorance is to exclude those contingencies that set men at odds and tempt them to exploit social and natural circumstances to their own advantage."

"A conception of justice is stable if, when the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period, those subject to these arrangements acquire a sense of jus…"