Its people had long been promised that their founder's centenary would be marked by their nation's emergence as "a strong and prosperous power".
As Western societies mature, grow more complex, and more prosperous, power and decision-making in society become more and more devolved, ultimately to the most active and creative individuals within it.
Too infrequently do journalists make clear, for instance, that Israel is the United States' most generously-funded client state; taxpayers subsidize 25percentt of this prosperous power's military budget.
These short-term measures that I've described here are urgent and vital, but as I mentioned earlier, by themselves they are not enough.... I'm proposing an energy security and environment trust, a commitment to a more prosperous economy powered by cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy for families".
Here's the good news: we have the means and the technology to meet all these challenges.... Today, I'm proposing a new Energy Security and Environment Trust, a bold and unprecedented commitment to achieve an even more prosperous economy, powered by cleaner, more reliable energy, in a healthy, truly livable environment.
Our progress toward a prosperous society powered by 100percentt safe, secure, and sustainable energy is unstoppable.
If we don't articulate a vision for a prosperous society powered by clean energy, then the only "optimistic" perspective is to deny reality and bury one's head in the sand.
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives are considering legislation that could set in motion a prosperous economy powered by wind and sun with millions of new clean energy jobs...the kind of future voters envisioned when they swept President Obama into office, and that Earthjustice has worked towards for years through major legal and legislative efforts.
In Japan, which rose from utter defeat in World War II to become a prosperous global economic power, many experts talk of a nation preparing for an "elegant" decline.
Just as we and our allies must make clear that we are prepared to welcome China's arrival as a prosperous and successful power, China must reassure the rest of the world that its development and growing global role will not come at the expense of security and well-being of others.
In our wondrously and preposterously divided world of 194 nation-states, it is fairly easy to subdivide them into certain categories: the really Great Powers, the medium powers, the prosperous aging states (think of Italy), the war-torn states and the desperately impoverished states in Africa, plus the lucky states (think of New Zealand).
