The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.