27 Al Capone Quotes

Al Capone quotes

1. Virgin territory for whorehouses.

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

3. My Jesus, mercy.

4. I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

5. I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

6. All I ever did was to sell beer and whiskey to our best people. All I ever did was to supply a demand that was pretty popular. Why, the very guys that make my trade good are the ones that yell the loudest about me.

7. 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.

8. Don't you get the idea I'm one of those god damn radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

9. I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job - it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

10. I don't even know what street Canada is on.

11. Vote early and vote often.

12. When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

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

14. Public service is my motto.

15. You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

1. Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

2. Be careful who you call your friends. Id rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

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

4. 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.

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

6. A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.

7. These guys are not from the Iraqi army, ... These are not Iraqi soldiers. They are not members of any of the Iraqi armed forces.

8. A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

9. They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

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

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

12. Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'