Nobody can't do nothing never at all for Irelandöyou can't help people against their will; that's what it comes toölet it go, let it go.

-Freeman, Edward Augustus
  Letter to Edith Thompson, 29  Jan.

A Free Man is he, that in those things, which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

-Hobbes,Thomas
Leviathan, pt.2, ch.21.

   Idealism isthe noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov1963.

If civil authorities legislate for or allow anything that is contrary to that order and therefore contrary to the will of God, neither the laws made or the authorizations granted can be binding on the consciences of the citizens, since God has more right to be obeyed than man.

-PopeJohn XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
  Pacem in Terris,10  Apr.

We know our will is free, and there's an end on't.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,16 Oct. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Ich solle niemals anders verfahren, als so, dass ich auch wollen k o« nne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden. I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

-Kant, Immanuel
  Grundlagen zur Metaphysik der Sitten (Groundwork to a Metaphysic of Morals), ch.1 (translated by H  J Paton).

  If a man in truth will the Good then he must be willing to suffer for the Good.

-Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye
  Purity Of Heart Is To Will One Thing (translated by D Steere, 1938).

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and, finally, it isthe subversion of good order, of all equityand justice.

-Knox,John
  First Blast of the Trumpet against theMonstrous Regiment of Women.

I cannot tell where you should look for me, if you send out any pinnace to seek me; because I live at the devotion of the wind and seas. And thus fare you well; desiring God to send us a merry meeting in this world, if it be his good will and pleasure.

-Lancaster, SirJames
c.1594  Letter to the East India Company written on the homeward voyage when the two English ships ran into storms off the Cape of Good Hope. Lancaster's ship lost her rudder. Unwilling torisk theother ship, Lancaster orderedher captain to sail straight home, taking the letter with him.  A voyage with three tall ships, the Penelope, admirall, the Marchant Royall, vice- admiral, and the Edward Bonaventure, rear-admiral, to the East Indies† Begun By M. George Raymond, in the yeere1591, and performed by M.  James Lancaster; and written from the mouth of Edmund Barker of Ipswich (his lieutenant in the sayd voyage) by M. Richard Hakluyt.

[Travel] preservesmy young noblemanfromsurfeiting of hisparents,andweanshimfroma dangerousfondness of his mother. It teacheth him wholesome hardship† Whereas the country gentleman that never travelled, can scarce go to London without making his will, at least without wetting his handkerchief.

-Lassels, Richard
c.1650  The Voyage of Italy, or a Compleat Journey through Italy (published1670).

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands öand wrote my will across the sky in stars To earn you Freedom, the seven pillared worthy house, öthat your eyes might be shining for me When we came.

-Arabia
  Seven Pillars of  Wisdom, dedication.

To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfilment, making the fulfilment onlya step to a further one.The vaster the power gained the vaster theappetite for more.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
The Lathe of Heaven, ch.9.

   Give it because it isright.Give it because it is just.Give it because it isgood for Ireland and good for the United Kingdom.Give it because it brings peace and good will, but do not give it because you are bullied byassassins.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  Speech on an Irish settlement, Caernarvon, 9 Oct.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

-Locke,John
Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  'My LostYouth', in Putnam's Monthly Magazine, vol.6,  Aug. Collected in The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems, 1858. In his diary Longfellow notes that these lines are from an 'old Lapland song'.

The Lord survives the rainbow of his will.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', last line.

It lies not in our power to love, or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, lo ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows, let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes. Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

-Marlowe, Christopher
  Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.167^76.

Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert,Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all, are sleeping on the hill.

-Masters, Edgar Lee
  Spoon River Anthology,'The Hill'.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

-Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
  De Stijl, vol.6.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

-Mill,John Stuart
  On Liberty.