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.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

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

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.

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

The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.

A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.