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

Al Capone

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

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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.

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This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses.

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Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddam radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.

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This American system of ours... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

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I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

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Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on.

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Don't you get the idea I'm one of these goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

Al Capone

Al Capone

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Born: January 17, 1899

Died: January 25, 1947 (aged 48)

Bio: Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old.

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