Read President Herbert Hoover's Annual Message to
Congress from December 1931.

Select the two highlighted examples that demonstrate his
belief in "rugged individualism."

Its is inevitable that in these times much of the legislation proposed to the congress and many of the recommendations of the executive must be designed to meet emergencies.

Again, just as the largest measure of responsibility in the government of the nation rests upon local self-government so does the largest measure of social responsibility in our country rest upon the individual.

Our system, based upon the ideals of individual initiative and of equality of opportunity, is not an artificial thing. Rather it is the outgrowth of experience of America, and expresses the faith and spirit of our people.

Ours must be a country of such stability and security as can not fail to carry forward and enlarge among all the people that abundant life of material and spiritual opportunity which it has represented among all nations since its beginning