Al Capone Quotes

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• We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about…
• They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.
• Now I know why tigers eat their young.
• Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.
• It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.
• I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is…
• Prohibition has made nothing but trouble
• A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.
• Public service is my motto.
• I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
• I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want,
• All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
• When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.
• You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
• When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
• You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone
• Be careful who you call your friends. Id rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.
• You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
• Once in the racket you're always in it.
• Virgin territory for whorehouses.

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