Al Capone Quotes

#1. I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

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

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

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#4. Don't mistake kindness for weakness

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#5. Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

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

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#7. You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

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#8. Now I know why tigers eat their young.

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#9. Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.

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#10. 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.

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

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

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

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#16. I did it for the love of cash your honer, traffickin' cross the verrazano, coke dealin marijuana

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#17. Vote early and vote often.

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#18. All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

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#19. I have built my organization upon fear.

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

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#21. Be careful who you call your friends. I'd rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

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#22. Public service is my motto.

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

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#24. I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want,

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

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#26. 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.'

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#27. You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

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#28. They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

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

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#30. Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

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

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#32. I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose
of some horse that looked good to me.

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#33. Do not mistake my kindness for weakness, I am kid to everyone, but if you are unkind to my it will not be weakness that you will remember me for.

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#34. Once in the racket you're always in it.

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

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#36. We been on the road for 18 hours ... I need a bath, some chow ... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?

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#37. It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

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#38. Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

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#39. Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

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#40. I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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.

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#43. You'll accomlish more with a kind word and a gun, than you will with a kind word alone.

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

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#45. 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.

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