You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.
Ludwig von Mises to Ayn Rand, praising her novel Atlas Shrugged, in correspondence (January 23, 1958), quoted in Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (2007).
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Hahaha! No words minced!
(I think that, had we interacted, v. Mises would have dismissed my economics, and Rand would have denounced my metaphysics.)