Occupation: Gangster Birth: January 17, 1899 Death: January 25, 1947
They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire..
Now I know why tigers eat their young..
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a th….
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?.
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten..
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….
I have built my organization upon fear..
All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular..
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 se….
It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked..
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War..
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.
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word..
In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody..
Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it..
Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out..
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system..
Vote early and vote often..
They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money..
You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake..