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Thread: Why did America claim itself “a city upon a hill”？
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[quote=YINDUFFY,320795]The term "city on a hill" has been associated with America since a sermon given in 1830 to colonists that referenced a passage from the Bible. It is most lately associated with Former President Ronald Reagan who is quoted as saying: " I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life.... In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than the oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed 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." Ronald Reagan passed away on June 5,2004 age 93. He was president from January 1981 to January 1989.[/quote]
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