Variant: Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks."
-Don Vito Corleone
Source: The Godfather
“One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns…”
“Send lawyers, guns and money.
Dad, get me out of this!”
"Lawyers, Guns And Money"
Excitable Boy (1978)
“There's worse that people can steal from you than money.”
Source: Tell-All
“The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.”
Quoted in Why Chicago didn’t want the Olympics, by Edward McClelland http://www.salon.com/2009/10/02/chicago_olympics/
“No honest man needs more than 10 rounds in any gun.”
Ruger to Tom Brokaw of NBC News in 1992. ([Fully Loaded: Inside the Shadowy World of America’s 10 Biggest Gunmakers, Josh, Harkinson, June 14, 2016, May 31, 2018, Mother Jones, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/fully-loaded-ten-biggest-gun-manufacturers-america/]; [Magazine limits were first proposed by Connecticut gun maker, Connecticut Magazine, New Haven Register, April 1, 2013, June 6, 2018, https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Magazine-limits-were-first-proposed-by-11435654.php]).
“He would milk the white man…. The white man had more money than sense.”
Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)
“Ideas are more powerful than guns.”
Wikinews interview with Tony Benn (8 August 2007), quote from approx 24min45 sec into interview.
2000s
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
Context: A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal. But suppose a man steals. Today you go to a representative of that power which has robbed you of the earth, of the right of free contract of the means of exchange, taxes you for everything you eat or wear (the meanest form of robbery), — you go to him for redress from a thief!
