Al Capone Quotes

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

- Al Capone

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

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

- Al Capone

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.

- Al Capone

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

- Al Capone

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

- Al Capone

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

- Al Capone

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

- Al Capone

I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat, the kind you can't buy. You just have to have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm.

- Al Capone

I have built my organization upon fear.

- Al Capone

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

- Al Capone

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

- Al Capone

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

- Al Capone