Bribery Quotes
These are some of the best 'Bribery' quotations and sayings.
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Judges and senators have been bought with gold.
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Petitions not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory, and often refused; or if received, are pocketed, not read.
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Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.
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