FINAL WARNING: The Illuminati Influence on International Affairs
can afford to give them up ... We are the soul, of which railroads,
copper mines, steel mines, and oil wells are the body- and they
are living entities that beat day and night, like our hearts, in the
sacred function of supporting human life, but only so long as they
remain our body, only so long as they remain the expression, the
reward and the property of achievement. Without us, they are
corpses and their sole product is poison, not wealth or food, the
poison of disintegration that turns men into hordes of
scavengers ... You do not have to depend on any material
possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the
one and only tool of production ... leave them the carcass of that
railroad, leave them all the rusted nails and rotted ties and gutted
engines- but don’t leave them your mind.”Later in the book, Galt says:“And the same will be happening in every other industry,
wherever machines are used- the machines which they thought
could replace our minds. Plane crashes, oil tank explosions, blast
furnace breakouts, high tension wire electrocutions, subway cave-
ins, and trestle collapses- they’ll see them all. The very machines
that made their life so safe- will now make it a continuous peril ...
You know that the cities will be hit worst of all. The cities were
made by the railroads and will go with them ... When the rails are
cut, the city of New York will starve in two days. That’s all the
supply of food its got. It’s fed by a continent three thousand miles
long. How will they carry food to New York? By directive and ox-
cart? But first, before it happens, they’ll go through the whole of
the agony- through the shrinking, the shortages, the hunger riots,
the stampeding violence in the midst of the growing stillness ...
They’ll lose the airplanes first, then their automobiles, then their
trucks, then their horsecarts ... Their factories will stop, then their
furnaces and their radios. Then their electric light system will go.”Francisco d’Anconia, who blew up all the copper mines in the world,
said of Galt:“He had quit the Twentieth Century. He was living in a garret in a
slum neighborhood. He stepped to the window and pointed at the
skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the