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J. Edgar Hoover [1895-1972] American

Rank: 107
Public Servant, Political figure

John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. He was appointed as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972, aged 77.

Family, Truth

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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.		101
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.	Truth	102
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.	Family	103
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.		104
We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.		105
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.		106
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.		107
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.		108

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