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that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the shining city upon a hill. The phrase comes from

John Winthrop. I've spoken to the shining city all my

political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind,

it was a tall, proud city, built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed,

and teeming with people of all kinds,

living in harmony and peace. A city with pre-ports that hung with commerce and creativity. And if

there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will

and the heart to get here.

That's how I saw it and see it still.

That's none other than President Ronald Reagan in his 1989 farewell address to the nation.

As he did often, he recalls in this speech the metaphor of the United States as a city on a hill.

He traces it to John Winthrop and describes a long tradition of understanding this country

as a place destined to play a special role in cosmic history.

The City on a Hill metaphor is one that many of you are familiar with.

You may know how John Winthrop cited it and how it influenced the Massachusetts

Bay Colony and the Puritans. You may know that John Kennedy was fond of reciting the metaphor as well.

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