Topic > A summary of John Winthrop's City on a Hill?

“Gentlemen, patience and liberality, we must rejoice in one another, make sure that others are ours, rejoice together, work together, work and suffer together, always having our Commission and Community before our eyes in the work” (Winthrop). This idea says that everyone should have the same patience with everyone, treat everyone with the same respect, and when someone else is in trouble, it is the community's job to help them. Another good goal to aim for, but again completely unrealistic to think that everyone will have the same patience and treat everyone the same. As much as people wish this could happen, it can't. There's always that one person who's really, really hard to be patient with. Also there will always be classes and rankings, people will always think they are better than a certain person or group of people. It's sad but that's how the world and people are