"A steady Patriot of the World alone, The friend of every country — but his own."
-George Canning
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In 1629, during the crossing of the Atlantic, the prospective settlers of Massachusetts Bay heard a lay sermon from their chosen governor, John Winthrop. They had, he said, entered into a covenant with God. Provided the settlers kept their covenant of godliness, the colony they would found in the New World would become "as a City upon a Hill," a blessing to its inhabitants and a beacon to all mankind.
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