"[U]nless you stop it," Lord Christopher Monckton warns melodramatically, "your president will sign your freedom, your democracy and your prosperity away forever, and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back again".
Our country's prestige and national prosperity cannot rest forever on past achievements.
In America, by contrast, many people seem to think that the business cycle is dead and are investing as if prosperity will continue forever.
Glenn Beck once said Obamacare would mean "the end of prosperity in America forever".
"Everyone wanted this boom and prosperity to go on forever," Norfolk said.
Reminding us that prosperity does not last forever, he warns: "In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the super-corporate chieftains who pay themselves millions.
Seduced by the hope that this glistening metal would bring prosperity to their lives, they forever changed the face of California's population.
In the first week of June, all of Europe was in a state of peace and prosperity that seemed likely to last forever; by the first week of August, the carnage had begun.
But it takes only a bit of prosperity for analysts to see prosperity lasting forever.
Forever and ever, grant us prosperity.
