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