Sentences with phrase «shining city on a hill»
Sir Winston Churchill didn't just ask his countrymen to battle the Germans, he exhorted them to «fight them on the beaches... [and] fight them on the landing grounds...» Ronald Reagan was a master of this tactic too from his «Shining City on a Hill» to the Berlin Wall.
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I still say they can win in November, I hope to God not, if they pull that Reaganesque Shining City on a Hill crap.
America is not a «shining city on a hill,» though we should let our light of freedom be a shining example for the entire world.
After eight years of George W Bush, America is in a similar emotional state and nowhere does Schama seek to draw the parallel and provide an insight as to how Barack Obama can heal those wounds, unite the country and — in Ronald Reagan's words — turn America back into a shining city on the hill.
«Mr. President, you ought to know that this nation is more «A Tale of Two Cities» than it is just a «Shining City on a Hill.»»
«This nation is more a tale of two cities than it is just a shining city on the hill.»
Cuomo gave a preview of his speech at the New York delegation breakfast this morning, which included a tribute video to his father, playing clips of his 1984 convention keynote in which he rebutted Ronald Reagan's «shining city on a hill.»
In the most famous passage delivered on the night of July 16, Mario Cuomo took aim at Reagan's stirring imagery of America as a «shining city on a hill.»
Gov. Mario Cuomo was 52 years old when he delivered his stirring «Tale of Two Cities» address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco — a proudly liberal rejoinder to President Ronald Reagan's election - year vision of America as a «shining city on the hill.»
«The 2018 election is our moment in New York political history and will be our chance to make New York again a fiscally sound, industrious, creative and prosperous state and as such the brightest light in that «shining city on a hill» — The United States of America,» Cox said.
Cuomo's will be trying to live up to the very high bar set by his father, the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo, with his memorable 1984 «tale of two cities» speech, in which he called out Republican President Reagan for his «shining city on a hill» rhetoric.
In his Democratic convention speech, Cuomo referenced Ronald Reagan's line about America being a «shining city on a hill.»
«Mr. President you ought to know this nation is more a tale of two cities, than it is just a shining city on a hill,» said Cuomo, who chided Reagan for ignoring the poor and caring more about tax cuts for millionaires and funding missiles.
«Mr. President, you ought to know that this nation is more a tale of two cities than it is just a shining city on a hill,» former Gov. Cuomo said at the 1984 convention.
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A city set on a hill can not be hid... Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and...
When the sun is shining these bright limestone cities set on top of hills dominate the landscape.
I'm not sure what shining hill your city is on, but you are about as delusional as comes out of the fundamental, evangelical church!
We no longer build shining cities of learning on hills — by hand, with sweat, toil and tears; we build big - box stores on flat land and call them schools.
Even from the time of the Puritans, he reveals, America was no shining «city up on a hill» but an engine of commercial and territorial expansion that drove Native Americans, as well as French, Spanish, Russian, and ultimately even British power, from the North American continent.
Because we feel strongly that government must strive much harder to be that shining city upon the hill that Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy both aspired to, we have set two timeouts on this new service.