Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar HooverThe most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.
J. Edgar HooverJustice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture. Justice is part of it, but it can't be separated as a single thing.
J. Edgar HooverA child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.
J. Edgar HooverThe 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.
J. Edgar Hoover