“Hey! I'm their leader, I've got to follow them!”
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
Eh! je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre! <br class="br">Among the Paris mob at the barricades during the French Revolution of 1848. <br class="br">Quoted by Eugène de Mirecourt in Histoire Contemporaine, No. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=iA-5arv1bBYC&q=%22Eh+je+suis+leur+chef+il+fallait+bien+les+suivre%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage (1857). <br class="br">The attribution to Ledru-Rollin is uncertain; see Leadership#L.