self-evident truth
Example Sentences
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That self-evident truth was on vivid display throughout the recall.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2021
That should be a statement of self-evident truth.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2020
That was what the founders had in mind when they based the Declaration of Independence on the self-evident truth that all are created equal.
From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2016
We spent nearly half an hour on Abraham Lincoln, and why in the Gettysburg Address he had called the principle of human equality a “proposition” instead of a self-evident truth, as Thomas Jefferson had done.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 15, 2015
Throughout the first half of the 1790s, the closest approximation to a self-evident truth in American politics was George Washington.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
