When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.