More than ever before in our country this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries armed with all the instruments of modern science he is still assured personal freedom and wide avenues of expression so that he may win for himself his family and his country greater material comfort ease and happiness; greater spiritual satisfaction and contentment.
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term rugged individualism I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
More than ever before in our country this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries armed with all the instruments of modern science he is still assured personal freedom and wide avenues of expression so that he may win for himself his family and his country greater material comfort ease and happiness; greater spiritual satisfaction and contentment.
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term rugged individualism I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.