“It’s a thing that Jefferson lay great stress on,” Sagan explained. “It wasn’t enough, he said, to enshrine some rights in the Constitution and the Bill or Rights; the people had to be educated and they have to practice their skepticism and their education. Otherwise, we don’t run the government, the government runs us.”
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