We spoke those words often in 2PPCLI.
Here in Australia, the special cable channel that has been set up for our own Federal election in just over a week, is actually dedicated today to coverage of the UK referendum results, so I will be following that during the day. It's the last day of school here for the term and my students will be watching it too (I teach history and politics and can justify it on both grounds - otherwise I might have taken a day of unpaid leave to keep up with it all).
I want a 'Leave' result - speaking as a joint British/Australian citizen - but am fairly pessimistic as the count begins. I'm afraid I think there are too many people around now who vote based on short term impacts on their finances rather than on issues of patriotism and philosophy - and Remain has run a pretty effective scare campaign on the potential economic impact of Brexit.
Even if it is lost, though, I don't believe this is the end. The EU is destined to continue to move more and more to totalitarianism, and eventually it will collapse because of that - but if this chance is lost, Britain could suffer a lot of damage before that happens.