#bribe

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give. ↗

— Jack Cade

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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him. ↗

— Jack Cade

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Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. ↗

— Edward Coke

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