The ratification process, he explained, would decide whether the United States would remain a "system of patchwork and a series of expedients" or become "the most flourishing, independent, and happy nation on the face of the earth."

"In America they multiplied and became a flourishing nation," Jesus continued.

Australia's gradual evolution from a penal colony to a flourishing nation.

Australia from penal colony to its gradual emergence as a flourishing nation.

In the 1870s, early white explorers described the Warumungu as a flourishing nation.

Starting from the ground up, promoters of the garin method, hope to move Israel on its way to being a stable, productive, flourishing nation with Torah and Jewish values at its core.

On June 26, 2006, Roosevelt, again, made the cover of TIME magazine with the lead story, "The Making of America-Theodore Roosevelt-The 20th Century Express": "At home and abroad, Theodore Roosevelt was the locomotive President, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future."