A shining city on a hill. Ronald Reagan loved the phrase ... That leader, John Winthrop, would become the first governor of the new colony. English people had been settling in North America ...

Once upon a time, the goal of our aborning country among Puritan emigrants to the New World was “we shall be as a city upon a hill ... the Massachusetts Bay Colony, spoke those words ...

One of the most widely employed metaphors in today’s American political discourse is that the United States is a “city on a hill ... Massachusetts Bay Colony sought to create—a godly ...

the Puritan lawyer and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who declared in 1630 that “we shall be as a city upon a hill; the eyes of all people are upon us.” Winthrop drew on the Gospel ...

Anna Eisenberg's empty USAID badge holder is seen next to USAID pins, a coin from the USAID Office of Inspector ...

Since John Winthrop, the Puritan governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Americans have considered their country to be a shining "city on a hill." This video traces that phrase from Winthrop to ...

first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, first used it in a sermon, quoting the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill ...