The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
All those men have their price.
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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.
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.
Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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.
What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.
You can't lose with the Stuff I use!
The best thing you can do for the poor is not to be one of them.
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