A shining city on a hill ... as the King James Version renders it: “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under ...

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 ...

Seems only yesterday we were "a shining city on a hill," a ... "You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden." It was at the core of the Sermon on the Mount.

Drawing from Ronald Reagan's famous vision of America as a "shining city on a hill," the Rev. John C. Danforth reassured Americans that light will prevail over darkness even in these uncertain times.

As I stood underneath the Statue of Freedom with the Washington Monument in front of me, I was reminded of President Ronald Reagan’s farewell address to the nation in 1989 where he talked of his ...