A Functioning Modern democracy...

A functioning modern democracy ought to ensure that civil servants work for the rest of the population. In the private sector, firms are accountable through the market. In the public sector, state officials are meant to be accountable through the ballot box. If they are not so accountable, human nature being what it is, they eventually will start to suit themselves.

- THE NEW ROAD TO SERFDOM - A Letter of Warning to America by DANIEL HANNAN