Al Capone Quotes

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

When I sell liquor, it’s bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it’s hospitality.

I don’t even know what street Canada is on.

Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can’t afford to let it in…We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy.

Vote early and vote often.

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can’t do you any harm. But don’t ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn’t be bought they wouldn’t have the job.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.