In my former address to this General Court I mentioned the duty required by the Constitution, frequently to revise the laws, and amend such of them as may still be necessary to secure the lives, liberty and property of the citizens-The importance of civil commutative justice and the good policy of making adequate compensations to those who administer well -and the great advantages of cherishing the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them among the body of the people.
"The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4"
Samuel Adams
This, he says, is an axiom of justice as well as of mathematics; and he asks whether there is not a true coincidence between commutative and distributive justice, and arithmetical and geometrical proportion.
"Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope"
Lord Bolingbroke