> There is no such saying. I mean, there clearly is now because people have been saying it. I was curious about the origin and the first instance I see online

> There is no such saying. I mean, there clearly is now because people have been saying it. I was curious about the origin and the first instance I see online is a line from Ed Harris in the 2017 movie Geostorm: "I'm turning the clock back to 1945, when America was a shining city on a hill, not just a bank disguised as a country." Though it's certainly possible there were earlier formulations.