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

It’s a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

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

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

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

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.

I have built my organization upon fear.

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

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

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.

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

Vote early and vote often.

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

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

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

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

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

Compassionate conservative. I don’t know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.