John Galt Quotes
A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, 1957, p. 1022.
As a lobbyist for the Union Pacific Railroad he "distributed" railroad stock to Congressmen voting on railroad subsidies in connection with the Crédit Mobilier. Ames was censured by the Congress in 1872, for "seeking to procure congressional attention to the affairs of a corporation in which he was interested."
John Galt (/ɡɔːlt/) is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). Although he is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and of the quest to discover the answer. Also, in the later part it becomes clear that Galt had been present in the book's plot all along, playing several important roles though not identified by name.