J. Edgar Hoover Quotes (12 Quotes)
- 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)
- No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
(J. Edgar Hoover)
- The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
(J. Edgar Hoover)
- Justice is incidental to law and order.
(J. Edgar Hoover)
- Hoover, of the FBI, explained that juvenile delinquents seldom come from homes in which Parents try to understand their children and find time to cultivate their friendship and love. Parents of integrity face facts and live by the truth. Parents live wit.
(J. Edgar Hoover)
- We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
(J. Edgar Hoover)
- 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)
- Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
(J. Edgar Hoover)
- Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
(J. Edgar Hoover)
- 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)
- The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jeffersons 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.
(J. Edgar Hoover)
- 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)
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