Americans fear large government, believe in self reliance, and strive for individual success while not begrudging those who succeed.
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He set up a lobby group called the Centre For Self Reliance and campaigned for access rights in Sarajevo for wheelchair users.
And American pride in personal initiative and self reliance?
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Mutualism recognises that our own capacities and self reliance, together with the strength of the communities we live in, matters, probably, more than the governments who govern us, or the nations we belong to.
The substantial majority of these people, Bill and others are discovering, would far prefer to remain productively engaged, and would prefer independence and self reliance to government entitlement for as long as they can.
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"They sound impressive when you first hear the numbers but when you begin to look at them, it's a very tiny scale that doesn't add up to much, " said Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self Reliance, a nonprofit national research organization.
The Mojave Desert and the Black Rock Desert are both featured in the film, the latter known in recent years for being the site of the annual Burning Man festival, a week-long event during which thousands of people camp out in the desert with the goal of creating a temporary city based on principles of community and self reliance.
Thrift, debate, self-reliance, self-improvement: it all sounds very like the moral and political training of a certain grocer's daughter from Grantham.
So far, at least, Packard has been able to convert them to his gospel of self-reliance and penny-pinching.
The Vietnam veteran connects his business to his passion for the U.S. Constitution and self-reliance.
Living here every weekend with his girlfriend in this 1, 200-square-foot two-bedroom, one-bathroom home requires self-reliance.
Thatcher was schooled from an early age in an ethic of hard work and self-reliance.
Parents argue that the sport is still a good way to learn discipline, self-confidence and self-reliance.
When President Obama ran in 2008 he talked approvingly about self-reliance and accountability.
She then measures various metrics such as persistence at difficult tasks, self-reliance, and selfish inclinations.
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Each society has to decide for itself the appropriate balance between unconditional welfare and self-reliance.
Once a tipping point is reached, restoring a culture of self-reliance and integrity becomes nearly impossible.
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In a country that prides itself on self-reliance, the word entitlement reeks of unearned and unmerited gain.
His position is consistent with two key policies of the Obama Administration: a greener economy and energy self-reliance.
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That is the best aspect of the Enlightenment tradition, to form a polity that encourages self-government, self-reliance, autonomy.
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Perhaps, in the name of self-reliance, Tanzania's government should stop giving pregnant women vouchers to buy mosquito nets.
Growing up in Providence, Gallagher lived with her single white mother, a strong woman with a belief in self-reliance.
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But as with all prevention focused coalitions they also strengthen family and build resiliency and self-reliance for a community.
But a new deal based on enhanced rights for aborigines, combined with greater self-reliance, could be a hard sell.
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Mr Djerrkura's philosophy of self-reliance has the ringing endorsement of Mr Howard's government.
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And self-reliance will be a hard idea to grasp for some aborigines themselves.
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In doing so, it has abandoned most of the Hindu-nationalist nostrums of swadeshi (self-reliance) that it used to proclaim.
That the Conservative values of enterprise, self-improvement, self-reliance and traditional families are also the values of many ethnic minorities.
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