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A City Upon A Hill “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” “Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill — constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities.” “I've spoken of 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 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.” Beautifully spoken by the pure and powerful. Regardless of who says it or when it is said, if there’s any incitement to patriotism, any swell of national pride, any appreciation for the Founding Fathers, any call to political action, any self-determination or refection of Divine Providence, it must be born of the button-busting national pride of America’s magnum double-barreled Charter Documents – the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the ingenuity of WE THE PEOPLE who make this City Upon A Hill so great. |
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