truism

The mayor seems not to have heard of the truism that if you tax something you get less of it.

There’s a truism that the Irish vote their values in presidential elections and their pocketbooks when electing the actual government, which may well hold true.

This matters, because it’s been a truism on the far-right for decades now that capturing the culture is the key to obtaining their larger political goals.

Parenthood - not to be confused with the 1989 Steven Martin family comedy film - mines the rich well of universal truisms around parenting, he notes, something that lends itself nicely to storytelling.

Your favorite truism about the power of history may apply here; mine comes courtesy of Salon contributor Mike Lofgren: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat famous quotations.”