"The Moral Mischief of Mental Lying"

Left to right: Henry Paulson, former Chairman, Goldman Sachs, former Treasury Secretary;
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."

- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer