When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. Al Capone More Quotes by Al Capone More Quotes From Al Capone Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. Al Capone bad-friend fake-friends best-friend I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for Al Capone bad-ass badass kindness A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further. Al Capone gun In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody. Al Capone this-life balls break A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them. Al Capone hard-work hate heart I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth. Al Capone poverty hell earth Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business. Al Capone bootlegging 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 abuse, the existence of a hunted man. Al Capone giving men years I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand. Al Capone gangsta demand men Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out. Al Capone hell guy trying You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake. Al Capone handshake accomplish gun They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money. Al Capone illegal taxes I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job. Al Capone police judging jobs I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want. Al Capone want giving people Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.' Al Capone marine cat fall 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 opportunity history hands Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. Al Capone mafia bootlegging class You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. Al Capone gun kind power Now I know why tigers eat their young. Al Capone tigers young knows 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 who dies,eh? Al Capone baths down-and needs
