obvious truth

Besides the mendacity of it all, such a scheme misses the obvious truth that “the audience has a mind of its own.”

This is, perhaps, not a perfectly obvious truth; and yet it is one susceptible of easy demonstration.

The obvious truth is that other animals do otherwise, but that, whatever they do, they make no rule or example for man.

One can only repeat the obvious truth that it is like an exceptionally dignified and stately English town.

But behind this statement there lies a far deeper though still obvious truth.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates.