J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hooverwas the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigationof the United States. He was appointed as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972, aged 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLaw Enforcement Officer
Date of Birth1 January 1895
CountryUnited States of America
J. Edgar Hoover quotes about
I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.
The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and magnetic light for nearly 200 years. They have been fed by the spiritual fuel which abounds only in a land where an abiding faith in God and recognition of Him as the true Author of Liberty prevail.
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.
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.
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
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.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
There is something addictive about secrets.
Even great men can be corrupted
When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.
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.
The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.
There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.