“I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw
when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept,
God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports
that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors
and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”
Ronald Reagan
