The quote it attributed to Clive Ponting's book on Churchill. So all anyone has to do is check that. Ponting is a reasonably well-known author it should be possible to find the book and check page 132. Whether Ponting was telling the truth is another matter - but he isn't Chomsky. Nor is he a socialist of course. Chomsky is a left socialist anarchist so JAD assumes that anything he says has to be a lie, with or without evidence. Ken
If Churchill really said such a thing, we would have some source better than Chomsky for it, and if Churchill really did say it, Chomsky would have given us a source that was possible to verify. 4i2EZSRU++C5ilvvAmDcHPpIjAAdRwU9+ndWqhck2
As Winston Churchill observed in a paper submitted to his Cabinet colleagues in January 1914,
"we are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves...an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us."
To be sure, such honesty is rare in respectable society, though the passage would be acceptable without the italicized phrases, as Churchill understood. He did make the paper public in the 1920s, in The World Crisis, but with the offending phrases removed.{Clive Ponting, Churchill (Sinclair-Stevenson 1994), 132.}