Carl Sagan quote

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re
up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious leader who comes ambling along. It’s a thing that Jefferson lay great stress on.
It wasn’t enough, he said, to enshrine some rights in the Constitution and the Bill of 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.