“When your leadership fails, the followers are the ones to blame or perhaps, there is poor leadership on the side of the leading figure.”
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"Order reigns in Berlin", Last written words. Collected Works 4 <!-- p. 536 -->
Context: The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated from the masses and out of the masses. The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. The masses were on the heights; they have developed this 'defeat' into one of the historical defeats which are the pride and strength of international socialism. And that is why the future victory will bloom from this 'defeat'.
'Order reigns in Berlin!' You stupid henchmen! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), pg. 180.

“Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”

Address to the Democratic National Convention, 1984

Address at Norwich University http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/eisenhower_citizenship_quotations.pdf, Northfield, Vermont (9 June 1946)
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