In cases, however, where it is believed that the leader and bellwether cannot be dispensed with, attempt after attempt is made nowadays to replace commanders by the summing together of clever gregarious men: all representative constitutions, for example, are of this origin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
When the old bellwether at the head rattles his bell, the mountains do indeed skip like rams and the little hills like lambs.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden