Meanings of rugged individualist in English

You've got a... rugged individualist who's going to protect themselves and their families against a collapse of civilisation.

The first is the rugged individualist.

He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism.

Consequently the stories were framed with this rugged individualist narrative in mind, even if that meant veering away from what actually happened in Laura's childhood.

Civil order was not sustainable in a society populated by rugged individualists.

The few who remain are rugged individualists descended from the original settlers.

Others told us that they had been trained to be rugged individualists.

This is a country of rugged individualists, dammit!

The way I see it, you've got no society here at all, just a bunch of rugged individualists.

Yes, we are rugged individualists.

But Americans are more than willing to pay the price because, far from being rugged individualists, we are sentimental communitarians.

Rugged individualists, Torin muttered.

We need rugged individualists like Sarah Palin, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and Florida congressional candidate Lt. Col. Allen West.