As far as I can tell, the full quote the Doctor's remembering never actually happened on-screen. If you listen to the relevant scene from The Waters of Mars where he remembers this, it doesn't sound like a single monologue but rather several different lines from different memories that just happen to be about the same subject.
I can find exactly one of those lines in a previous episode, namely at the very end of Gridlock when the Doctor tells Martha his backstory.
DOCTOR: I lied to you, because I liked it. I could pretend. Just for a bit, I could imagine they were still alive, underneath a burnt orange sky. I'm not just a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. The Face of Boe was wrong. There's no one else.
MARTHA: What happened?
DOCTOR: There was a war. A Time War. The last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks ...
It's likely that all of the other lines simply happened off-screen.
But the reason he went back to the base is very simple: He got fed up with letting people die.
Remembering how his entire race died at this point in the story is important not only because it means there are no other Time Lords to try and stop him, but also because seeing so much death during the Time War is part of the reason he can't stand to see any more (at least, not without trying to stop it).
Incidentally, although in this episode the Doctor fails to save them, in a later season he does succeed in changing an event that happens to be a fixed point in time...and we find out exactly why you shouldn't do that.
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