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Do ya mean "shining city on a hill"? Because if you do, JFK invoked that image before Reagan. Besides, aren't Obama/Biden more representative of those ideals mentioned in JFK's speech?

 

 

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Are you talking about "shining city on the hill?" If you are, a Pilgrim coined the phrase in 1620 or something - or he may have stolen it from somebody else.

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Are you talking about "shining city on the hill?" If you are, a Pilgrim coined the phrase in 1620 or something - or he may have stolen it from somebody else.

 

And he in turn got it from the Sermon on the Mount.

 

* "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."—Jesus, from the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:14-16.

 

* "For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses . . ."—John Winthrop, aboard the Arbella, 1630.

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