Reagan telegraphed belief in a God-blessed America by describing the United States as “a shining city on a hill.” Reagan flipped the original meaning of a Biblical phrase from a 17th century ...

His memoir “Growing Up” depicted her hometown “like a shining city on a hill.” Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now children’s book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel.

America has been the shining city on a hill, a place where individuals were not confined by the circumstances of their birth but could forge their own destiny through ambition and hard work.

I grew up believing in the idea of America as the shining city on a hill. That never meant we were perfect—no nation is—but that we strove to be. Our founders enshrined that in the ...

Ronald Reagan celebrated it as a “shining city on a hill.” George W. Bush argued that the nation was “the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.” But to President Trump ...

“A shining city upon a hill” — in the words of John Winthrop and Ronald Reagan, America has long been a nation guided by principle and purpose. To uphold this legacy, we cannot fail the ...