NOUN
- individualism in social and economic affairs; belief not only in personal liberty and self-reliance but also in free competition
How To Use rugged individualism In A Sentence
- I will miss his eclectic, enthusiastic, unassuming, rugged individualism.
- Perhaps rugged individualism is weakest in the church going states and strongest in the non-attending states. Matthew Yglesias » Clinging to Religion
- This, he felt, helped foster the importance placed on rugged individualism and independence that still imbues many discussions of southern values.
- Cash and Co stand at the very heart of country's embrace of the western myth of rugged individualism.
- I believe in rugged individualism and that no one owes me anything just because I live and breathe. Final Weekend - Tim Burns (R CAND, PA-12). | RedState
- It was once said that Britain was divided into herbivores, the gentle types who read the Guardian and believe in collectivism, and carnivores, the thrusting go-getters who favour rugged individualism.
- To them the cowboy is and always will be the crowning pinnacle of American manhood and rugged individualism. Shane, Revisited
- This, he felt, helped foster the importance placed on rugged individualism and independence that still imbues many discussions of southern values.
- Because for students to learn about the many atrocities strewn along the path of Manifest Destiny would upset the national narrative of continual social progress, rugged individualism, and free enterprise. Michelle Chen: Ethnic Studies Ruling Escalates Arizona Schools Struggle
- The first is that we are an altogether unregimented people, with a strong belief in the virtues of rugged individualism and in the right of the average man to go along about as he pleases, so long as he does not do actual injury to society. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2
