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
A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him
What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.
The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.
The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic.
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
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.
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.