Anthony D. Marshall, the disgraced 89-year-old son of the Manhattan society doyenne Brooke Astor, finally surrendered on Friday to begin a prison sentence for stealing millions of dollars from his mother during her final years of life, ending a seven-year legal odyssey that came to define his own waning years.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013