"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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“Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.”

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

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

“This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses.”

“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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"The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience."

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