If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The line argues that suppressing truth is self-defeating: attempts to silence or “bury” facts and testimony do not eliminate them, but can intensify their force, allowing them to accumulate pressure until they re-emerge more powerfully. Read in a political key, it suggests that censorship and repression create martyrs, deepen public suspicion, and ultimately strengthen the very cause authorities hope to extinguish. More broadly, it reflects a moral confidence that reality has a kind of persistence—truth may be delayed, distorted, or hidden, but it retains the capacity to surface and reshape events. The imagery of burial and growth frames truth as organic and resilient rather than fragile.