Top 32 J. Edgar Hoover Quotes
#1. Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.
J. Edgar Hoover
#2. Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover
#6. There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.
J. Edgar Hoover
#7. All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.
J. Edgar Hoover
#8. Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover
#9. Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover
#10. We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
J. Edgar Hoover
#11. J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
J. Edgar Hoover
#12. The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover
#14. A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.
J. Edgar Hoover
#15. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.
J. Edgar Hoover
#16. Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.
J. Edgar Hoover
#17. The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation ... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.
J. Edgar Hoover
#19. The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.
J. Edgar Hoover
#20. I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
J. Edgar Hoover
#21. It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
J. Edgar Hoover
#22. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks ...
J. Edgar Hoover
#23. WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.
J. Edgar Hoover
#24. No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
J. Edgar Hoover
#25. There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him
J. Edgar Hoover
#27. I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
J. Edgar Hoover
#28. The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
J. Edgar Hoover
#29. When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.
J. Edgar Hoover
#30. What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.
J. Edgar Hoover
#31. I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.
J. Edgar Hoover
#32. There is no doubt that America is now the prime target of international communism.
J. Edgar Hoover
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