It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you... were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort ...that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility. The changes seemed beautiful and harmonious to me; it was like watching the growth of a great man or of a great idea. I recognized every tree and sandbank and rugged draw. I found that I remembered the conformation of the land as one remembers the modelling of human faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus have I made my own opinions clear; Yet neither praise expect, nor censure fear:... And this unpolished, rugged verse I chose, As fittest for discourse and nearest prose;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage.... ...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigo...rous 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation--th...e great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-in ...house, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into... which we toss our integral tots for processing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit f...rom the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »