A brass spyglass on a small rocky rise, pointing toward an orange sun at the distant horizon beneath a blue dusk sky.

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Ronald Reagan

God had a divine purpose in placing this land between two great oceans to be found by those who had a special love of freedom and courage.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker presents the land's position between two oceans as part of a divine design, not chance. In this view, the place was meant to be discovered by people distinguished by a special devotion to freedom and by courage, linking geography, providence and national character.

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