J. Edgar Hoover Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by J. Edgar Hoover:

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
~J. Edgar Hoover


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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
~J. Edgar Hoover


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-edgar-hoover-quotes/#37a25649

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-edgar-hoover-quotes/#fd4d8425

Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
~J. Edgar Hoover


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-edgar-hoover-quotes/#1d65fe9e

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
~J. Edgar Hoover


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-edgar-hoover-quotes/#010cf9bd

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-edgar-hoover-quotes/#9d353b07

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
~J. Edgar Hoover


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-edgar-hoover-quotes/#e6c2c1f9

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
~J. Edgar Hoover


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/j-edgar-hoover-quotes/#ccdb6682

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