Quotations from Al Capone



Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

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

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

I have built my organization upon fear.

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

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

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 only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Vote early and vote often.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.