Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Blackmail is more effective than bribery.
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
All those men have their price.
Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
Every man has his price.
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