Sherlock Holmes on Anglo-American Relations

From "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"

"It is always a joy for me to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a Minister in fargone years will not prevent our children from being one day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes."