We want to take our rugged individualism and turn it into…

“Anarchism alone stresses the importance of the individual, his possibilities and needs in a free society. Instead of telling him that he must fall…

— Emma Goldman

“I realized, listening to the silences that fell sometimes in my interview groups, that there are things that are sayable and unsayable about motherhood…

— Judith Warner

Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen,…

— Luc Sante

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to…

— Herbert Hoover

Libertarianism, the political philosophy of rugged individualism, ought to hold a natural appeal to tolerant, anti-statist, free-trade conservatives who deplore the turn taken by…

— Jacob Weisberg

The Democrat Party is willing to undermine whatever, if it'll get them back to power and keep them there. The Democrat Party's willing to…

— Rush Limbaugh

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically…

— Herbert Hoover

In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Unlike Marxists, conservatives they don't want to control anything. We believe in individualism, self-reliance, rugged individualism, and we trust people that in free markets…

— Rush Limbaugh

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart…

— Charlie Pierce

America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for…

— Rick Warren

“I've set the vast majority of my books in New England because that's where I live. I love this part of the country the…

— Judith Arnold

“I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It did not…

— Cory Booker

While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been…

— Herbert Hoover