• For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.

    John Winthrop: For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.
    "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630).Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote this in a discourse composed aboard the Arbella during its voyage to Massachusetts. See Bible 208