Quotes by Al Capone

“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”

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

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

“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.”

“you'll accomlish more with a kind word and a gun, than you will with a kind word alone.”

“They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.”

“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.”

“Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on.”

“Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.”

“This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses.”

“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 t...”

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

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