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«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 rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.»

Author: Lewis H. Lapham | Keywords: credence, disgrace, iconography, individualism, individualist, individualists, instances, lend, maverick, mavericks, misfit, misfits, mistaken, ostracism, painted, publicized, rigorous, rugged, rugged individualism, rugged individualist, sore, spoilsport, thumb

«The American system of rugged individualism.»

Author: Herbert Hoover (President) | Keywords: American System, individualism, rugged, rugged individualism

«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 opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism»

Author: Herbert Hoover (President) | About: America and Americans, War | Keywords: American System, diametrically, European, paternalism, Philosophy of, rugged individualism

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