Fireside Chats Quotes

I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

When he [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] advised millions of listeners in one of his fireside chats to “tell me your troubles”, most of them believed implicitly that he was speaking to them personally and immediately wrote him a letter. It was months before we managed to swim out of the flood of mail.

... a trick speech, calculated to lead the American people into war and ruin.

You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

I shall tell you about things that are of interest to me and I hope you will be interested also. Please write and tell me of things in which you would be interested.

Meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the first time was like having your first bottle of Champaign.

Donald Trump can take his message directly to the people via rallies and addresses carried over social media. I'd call them updated versions of Roosevelt's fireside chats, but a portion of my younger readership doesn't even know what a radio is thanks to a Democrat-run education system.

I have always found Franklin Delano Roosevelt an amusing fellow, but I would not employ him, except for reasons of personal friendships, as a geek in a common carnival.

Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans.