J. Edgar Hoover
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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until 1972. The FBI's current headquarters is named in honor of him.
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- Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
- News summaries (April 7, 1955)
- Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
- Look magazine (June 14, 1956)
- We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don’t clear anybody. We don’t condemn anybody.
- Look magazine (June 14, 1956)
- The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization 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.
- The Elks Magazine (August 1956)
- 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.
- "What I Would Tell a Son," Family Weekly (July 14, 1963)
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- I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
- Justice is incidental to law and order.
- 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 Communism and Atheism.
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- It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
- Lyndon Johnson, New York Times (October 31, 1971)
