Dean Acheson Quote

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
, I am willing to join in your statement on the ground that I feel about the future of the United States whenever the President starts out on his travels the way the Marshal of the Supreme Court does when he opens a session of that Court. You will recall that he ends up his liturgy by saying God save the United States for the Court is now sitting.

Speech at West Point (5 December 1962), in Vital Speeches, January 1, 1963, page 163.