Tag: John Winthrop

  • We Were Supposed to Be a City on a Hill

    We Were Supposed to Be a City on a Hill

    In 1630, Puritan lawyer and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop uttered the words that have come to represent the audacity of America’s founding enterprise: “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people will be upon us.”  Three hundred and fifty years…