With apologies to Winston Churchill:

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All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, America recedes into the darkness. . . .

We in this country, as in other Liberal and democratic countries, have a perfect right to exalt the principle of self-determination, but it comes ill out of the mouths of those in totalitarian states who deny even the smallest element of toleration to every section and creed within their bounds.

But, however you put it, this particular block of land, this mass of human beings to be handed over, has never expressed the desire to go into authoritarian rule. I do not believe that even now--if their opinion could be asked, they would exercise such an option.

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1. Is this a quote by Winston Churchill?

....Do you have a link?

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2. It's a slight paraphrase after the Munich Agreement

Here's the original:

All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness. . . . No one has a right to say that the plebiscite which is to be taken in areas under Saar conditions, and the clean-cut of the 50 per cent. areas-that those two operations together amount in the slightest degree to a verdict of self-determination. It is a fraud and a farce to invoke that name….

We in this country, as in other Liberal and democratic countries, have a perfect right to exalt the principle of self-determination, but it comes ill out of the mouths of those in totalitarian States who deny even the smallest element of toleration to every section and creed within their bounds. But, however you put it, this particular block of land, this mass of human beings to be handed over, has never expressed the desire to go into the Nazi rule. I do not believe that even now--if their opinion could be asked, they would exercise such an option….

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/munich.htm