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City on a Hill Speech: content & American Exceptionalism 1630 Sermon given, actually called //A model of Christian Charity//

"We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and made a story and byword through the world."

American Exceptionalism: The idea that God has allowed the people to live in America, and they have the divine right to invade territory because God has allowed them to. See: The Great Migration