Don't follow leaders.

When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don’t give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Alas, one cannot assert authority by accepting one's own fallibility. Simply, people need to be blinded by knowledge-we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

"Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.""...If you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so."

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

the forces of rulers and ritual slowly, slowly will kill our freedom to live as we choose.

"NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?"

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hearts?

If one were to rob human beings of the power to do and say what they please, that would be to take away, and to curtail the first principle of independence.