More from Al Capone
It’s a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.
Al CaponeAl Capone When I sell liquor, it’s bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it’s hospitality.
Al CaponeAl Capone Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al CaponeAl Capone Now I know why tigers eat their young.
Al CaponeAl Capone Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
Al CaponeAl Capone 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.
Al CaponeAl Capone A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.
Al CaponeAl Capone You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al CaponeAl Capone Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.
Al CaponeAl Capone 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.
Al CaponeAl Capone My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way.
Al CaponeAl Capone Vote early and vote often.
Al CaponeAl Capone I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
Al CaponeAl Capone Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
Al CaponeAl Capone You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
Al CaponeAl Capone You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.
Al CaponeAl Capone
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I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
SuetoniusSuetonius You can walk in and out. I have built no doors.
Sonika MSonika M Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
Marcus Terentius VarroMarcus Terentius Varro He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.
SuetoniusSuetonius The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
LucretiusLucretius We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Adam YoungAdam Young True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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