"These visitors to that city on the Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or Christians; conservatives or liberals; or Democrats or Republicans. They are Americans awed by what has gone before, proud of what for them is still a shining city on a hill.
At this very moment, some young American, coming up along the Virginia or Maryland shores of the Potomac is seeing for the first time the lights that glow on the great halls of our government and the monuments to the memory of our great men.
Let us resolve tonight that young Americans will always see those Potomac lights; that they will always find there a city of hope in a country that is free. And let us resolve they will say of our day and our generation that we did keep faith with our God, that we did act 'worthy of ourselves;' that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill.''Ronald Reagan
Election Eve Address A Vision for America 11/3/1980
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"Since her beginning America has held fast to this hope of divine providence, this vision of 'man with God.'
It is true that world peace is jeopardized by those who view mannot as a noble beingbut as an accident of nature, without soul, and important only to the extent he can serve an all powerful state.
But it is our spiritual commitmentmore than all the military might in the worldthat will win our struggle for peace.
It is not 'bombs and rockets' but belief and resolveit is humility before God that is ultimately the source of Americas strength as a nation.
Our people always have held fast to this belief, this vision, since our first days as a nation."Ronald Reagan
Election Eve Address A Vision for America 11/3/1980
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