The truth is hard to find these days. Perhaps it has been hard to find in any day. Do you remember ancient Diogenes who walked about with a lamp, shining it in men's faces, saying he was looking for an honest man. Diogenes felt he could never find the truthful person. A little later in history Pontius Pilate reflected a similar skepticism, when at the trial of Jesus he asked cynically, "What is truth?" Anyone who has ever taken a few courses in philosophy will sympathize with Pilate. If our Declaration of Independence begins by saying, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights," we who live under the Declaration 200 years later are not so sure all those truths are self-evident to everyone. Truth …