2.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Edward Coke
3.
Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
Barnabe Rich
4.
If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.
Eddie Griffin
5.
Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
Umar
6.
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
Walter Raleigh
7.
Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
Philip Massinger
9.
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
Henry Ward Beecher