Said by
Jack Nicholson, but with an exclamation point:
"The truth? You can't handle the truth!"
in the 1992
Rob Reiner movie
A Few Good Men. The scene was excerpted for use in the movie trailer, and it hints at some compelling secret that Nicholson's character, Colonel Jessup, is keeping from The American People.
In this way it is like the scene at the end of
The Three Days of the Condor when the bad
government agent explains in
realpolitik terms the results of
Robert Redford's do-good actions. It implies that
Americans need to live within their web of fictions about themselves and their country.