W.A.C. Bennett

Quotes

• "The finest sound in the land is the ringing of cash registers."
• "The Socialist Hordes are at the gates of British Columbia!"
• "I couldn't give it away, so we decided to build it and run it." - On the British Columbia Railway.
• "We are a young country; we must build on the solid rock of sound economic policies and balanced budgets. But, we must be prepared, as a nation, to step from the solid rock onto new ground. The path of ease, the path of tradition alone, is not the path of a greater Canada." - Addressing the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in 1962.