Robert Walpole Quotes

Everyone has their price. You just have to find out what it is.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego.

One only needs a big enough bribe to give in like a lamb.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

Sometimes you have to strike a deal with the Mafia. But remember, the Mafia is not Mother Theresa. We must always keep that in mind.

And you shall take no bribe; for the bribe blinds the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous:

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out that price

Many government officials have very high moral standards at the beginning of their duties, but after a while some officials sway from the right path and easily fall into the temptation of bribery and fraud.

There can be no compromise regarding corruption.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

All those men have their price.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

He that is won with a nut, may be lost with an apple.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

He who thinks that anything can be accomplished with money will himself likely to do anything for money.