[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been…

“Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.”

— Barack Obama

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

— Ambrose Bierce

History tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing.

— Barack Obama

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it…

— Barack Obama

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

— Rita Dove

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“What is moral is self-evident.”

— Friedrich Theodor Vischer

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

— J. Martin Klotsche

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

— John Henry Newman

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind…

— Jon Brion

Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident.…

— Rick Steves

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal"…

— Abraham Lincoln

Everything is self-evident.

— Rene Descartes

It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.

— Karl Weierstrass