Quotes by Gideon Welles

• It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
• The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
• The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
• This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.