His motto for dealing with authority, as quoted in Sunrise Festival Interview "David Shayler, King Arthur Pendragon and Kev the Poet at Sunrise 2008" by K Penton, on Radio 4a (2008)
“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
George S. Patton: "Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way", as quoted in Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes (2005) edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157
Misattributed
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
As quoted in Pocket Patriot : Quotes from American Heroes (2005) edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"A Farewell to Essay-Writing" (March 1828)
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)
“The way to get the most out of a victory is to follow it with another that makes it look small.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Christopher Hitchens, May 2002 http://archives.cjr.org/year/02/3/giuffo.asp: On Noam Chomsky <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Michael Grimm (1970) American politician
In New York City, New York (July 1999). As quoted in "Congressman Grimm and the Nightclub" http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/congressman-michael-grimm-at-the-caribbean-tropics.html (29 April 2011), The New Yorker, by Evan Ratliff. <br class="br">1990s
“Do your own thing, be your own king, that’s my philosophy. Lead or get out of the way.”
Tony Vigorito (1950) American writer
Nine Kinds of Naked (2008)
“You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
Interview with Gary K. Wolfe (28 July 1987), quoted in Harlan Ellison : The Edge of Forever (2002), by Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe
Borrowing a common scientific joke expressing the laws of thermodynamics.
