“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Quotes about will
Quotes about will
“The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.