What you need is a good Hoovering.

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 will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

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

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

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

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

The show was bad, but I was great

I had a will to win that come from being raised poor.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.