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• "Now I know why tigers eat their young." - Al Capone

• "In this life, all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody." - Al Capone

• "This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it." - Al Capone

• "I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die than live in poverty on this earth." - Al 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 Capone

• "If people did not want beer and wouldn’t drink it, a fellow would be crazy for going around trying to sell it!" - Al Capone

• "In this life, all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody." - Al Capone

• "The funny part of the whole thing is that a man in this line of business has so much company. I mean his customers." - Al Capone

• "Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies." - Al Capone

• "I have built my organization upon fear." - Al Capone

• "All I ever did was sell beer and whiskey to our best people." - Al Capone

• "It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked." - Al Capone

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• "Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble and my offense has been to furnish them with those amusements. Whatever else they may say, my booze has been good and my games have been on the square. Public service has been my motto." - Al Capone

• "I'll go as deep in my pockets as any man to help any guy that needs help. I can't stand to see anybody hungry or cold or helpless." - Al Capone

• "I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want." - Al Capone

• "There's always some wiseacre who stands in the wings and criticizes. You've got two choices. You either buy these wiseacres off by giving them jobs...or you scare them off. If they don't scare, you take them in the alley. When they get out of the hospital, if they still want to squawk, you get rid of them." - Al Capone

• "If machines are going to take jobs away from the worker, then he will need to find something else to do. Perhaps he'll get back to the soil. But we must care for him during the period of change. We must keep him away from Red literature, Red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy." - Al Capone

• "People who respect nothing dread fear. It is upon fear, therefore, that I have built up my organization. But understand me correctly, please. Those who work with me are afraid of nothing. Those who work for me are kept faithful, not so much because of their pay as because they know what might be done with them if they broke faith." - Al Capone

• "Nobody wanted Prohibition. This town voted six to one against it. Somebody had to throw some liquor on that thirst. Why not me?" - Al Capone

• "Once you're in the racket, you're always in it. The parasites will trail you, begging for money and favors, and you can never get away from them no matter where you go." - Al Capone

• "It's hard, dangerous work, aside from any hate at all, and when a fellow works hard at any line of business he wants to go home and forget about it. He doesn't want to be afraid to sit near a window or an open door." - Al Capone

• "Hell, it's a business... All I do is supply a public demand. I do it in the best and least harmful way I can. I can't change the conditions. I just meet them without backing up." - Al Capone

• "Union members look at dues the same way they look at taxes: just something you got to pay the thieves who run things." - Al  Capone

• "Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business." - Al Capone

• "Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class." - Al Capone

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• "You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun." - Al Capone

• "They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money." - Al Capone

• "I’ve been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War." - Al Capone

• "You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word." - Al Capone

• "You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake." - Al Capone

• "Once you’re in the racket, you’re always in it." - Al Capone

• "It seems like I’m responsible for every crime that takes place in this country." - Al Capone

• "A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further." - Al Capone

• "Why not treat our business like any other man treats his, as something to work at in the daytime and forget when he goes home at night? There’s plenty of business for everybody. Why kill each other over it?" - Al Capone

• "You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone

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