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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.