Al Capone Quotes

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

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.

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.

I have built my organization upon fear.

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

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.’

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

I don’t even know what street Canada is on.

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.