This baleful phrase, implying conscious and unconscious collective guilt and distorted police priorities, came to be accepted as a self-evident truth.

I am the instrument of that eternal self-evident truth, an instrument that voices forth the message of the ever-true.

We live in a world not of self-evident truths but of probabilities.

But the second paragraph, with its talk of self-evident truths and unalienable rights, were applicable long after the war had ended.

The assertions by 18th century philosophers that natural rights are self-evident truths, he argues, are necessarily false as there are no such things as self-evident truths.