When I sell liquor, it’s bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it’s hospitality.
AL CAPONEWhen I sell liquor, it’s bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it’s hospitality.
AL CAPONEMy rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way.
AL CAPONEBe careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
AL CAPONEI have built my organization upon fear.
AL CAPONEVote early and vote often.
AL CAPONEIt’s a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.
AL CAPONECapitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
AL CAPONEI am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
AL CAPONEYou can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
AL CAPONEA smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.
AL CAPONEYou accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.
AL CAPONEBolshevism 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.
AL CAPONENow I know why tigers eat their young.
AL CAPONEHell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
AL CAPONEYou can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
AL CAPONESome call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.
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