Manning/Dunn Hyde County NC Genealogy

“Free bungee jumping for members of Congress; no strings attached”

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? -Laurence J. Peter, (1919-1990)

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government - Thomas Jefferson 
 

Thomas Jefferson, asked in 1781, “Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?” (Notes on Virginia, 1781, Query XVIII.)

'The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.'  - Will Rogers

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents" ~ James Madison

The problem with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money - Margaret Thatcher

"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." – Tacitus

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks - Thomas Jefferson

The short speech below was delivered by Winston Churchill in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist.  It may set out the current views of many today, but is expressed in the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and use of the English language, of which he was a past master.  Sir Winston Churchill was one of the greatest men of the late 19th and 20th centuries.  He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist, an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war leader and Prime Minister, to whom the Western world is forever in his debt.  He was a prophet in his own time.

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!  Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.  The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.  A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity.  The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.  Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.  No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.  Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.  It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
Sir Winston Churchill; (The River War, first edition, Vol.  II, pages 248-50 London )

When Insults Had Class

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the  gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -  Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time  reading it." - Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." -  Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill    

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.


"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."  - Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."  - Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."  - Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae  West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.." -  Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.

 Who Knew??? 

1.  Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?
A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.

2.  Q: Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not?
A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals.  Dimes, quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not valuable enough to shave.

3.  Q: Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left?
A: When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's right! Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left.  And that's where women's buttons have remained since.

4.  Q. Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses?
A: In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.

5.  Q: Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called 'passing the buck'?
A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility, he would 'pass the buck' to the next player.

6.  Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?
A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would then just touch or clink the host's glass with his own.

7.  Q: Why are people in the public eye said to be 'in the limelight'?
A: Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and stage lighting by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theatre, performers on stage 'in the limelight' were seen by the audience to be the center of attention.

8.  Q: Why do ships and aircraft in trouble use 'mayday' as their call for help?
A: This comes from the French word m'aidez - meaning 'help me' – and is pronounced 'mayday.'

9.  Q: Why is someone who is feeling great 'on cloud nine'?
A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.

10.  Q: Why are zero scores in tennis called 'love'?
A: In  France, where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called  'l'oeuf,'  which is French for 'egg.'  When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans pronounced it 'love.'

11.  Q: In golf, where did the term 'Caddie' come from?
A. When Mary, later Queen of Scots, went to France as a young girl (for education & survival), Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scot game 'golf.' So he had the first golf course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when she returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her.  In French, the word cadet is pronounced 'ca-day' and the Scots changed it into 'caddie.'
 

THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYME ...WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE, AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:

1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife: Marrying you has screwed up my life.

2. I see your face when I am dreaming. That's why I always wake up screaming.

3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot; This describes everything you are not.

4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss, But I only slept with you because I was pissed.

5.. I thought that I could love no other -- that is until I met your brother.

6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head.

7. I want to feel your sweet embrace; But don't take that paper bag off your face.

8. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes Damn, I'm good at telling lies!

9. My love, you take my breath away. What have you stepped in to smell this way?

10. My feelings for you no words can tell, Except for maybe 'Go to hell.'

11. What inspired this amorous rhyme? Two parts vodka...one part lime.

Quotes from past gridiron legends have added to football's lore and should be passed on to today's youth to increase their wisdom.

#1.  'Football is only a game.  Spiritual things are eternal.  Nevertheless, Beat Texas '  Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to th e 1969 game.

#2.  'After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't ready for that.'  Bobby Bowden / Florida State

#3.  'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.'  Lou Holtz / Arkansas

#4.  'When you win, nothing hurts.'  Joe Namath / Alabama      

#5.  'Motivation is simple.  You eliminate those who are not motivated.'  Lou Holtz / Arkansas      

#6.  'If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, 'Roll, tide, roll!'  Bear Bryant / Alabama  

#7.  'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.'  Frank Leahy / Notre Dame    

#8.  'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.' Woody Hayes / Ohio State   

#9.  'I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation.  I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.'  Bob Devaney / Nebraska    

#10.  'In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.'  Wally Butts / Georgia      

#11.  'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.'  Paul Dietzel / LSU      

#12.  'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.'  Bear Bryant / Alabama      

#13.  When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.  'No, but you can see it from here.' Lou Holtz / Arkansas .      

#14.  'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want hi m to quit in practice, not in a game.'  Bear Bryant / Alabama      

#15.  'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.'  Matty Bell / SMU      

#16.  'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.'   Frank Leahy / Notre Dame      

#17.  'I never graduated from Iowa , but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.'  Alex Karras / Iowa      

#18.  'My advice to defensive players:  Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.' Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee      

#19.  'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State    

#20.  'Always remember... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.' Shug Jordan / Auburn      

#21.  'They cut us up like boarding house pie.  And that's real small pieces.'  Darrell Royal / Texas      

#22.  'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.'  Knute Rockne / Notre Dame      

#23.  'They whipped us like a tied up goat.' Spike Dykes / Texas Tech      

#24.  'I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said:  'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good.' Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State      

#25.  'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.'  Bobby Bowden / Florida State      

#26.  'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport.  Dancing is a contact sport.' Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State       

#27.  After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team:  'All those who need showers, take them.' John McKay / USC      

#28.  'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.'  Murray Warmath / Minnesota      

#29.  'The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.  To be a back, you only have to be dumb.' Knute Rockne / Notre Dame      

#30.  'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.'  Spike Dykes / Texas Tech      

#31.  'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle.  You can hear it.' Knute Rockne / Notre Dame      

#32.  'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.'Darrell Royal / Texas      

#33.  'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.'  ; Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School      

#34.  'Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad. Darrell Royal / University of Texas      

#35.  'I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.' Knute Rockne / Notre Dame      

#36.  'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' John Heisman  , Georgia Tech     

Historical - Political Quotes

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams

2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C.)

16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)

17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of  socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have -- Thomas Jefferson

25. The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. -- Margaret Thatcher

26. "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents" ~ James Madison

27. Uh Oh -- General Custer

A TEXAS BEER JOINT SUES A CHURCH....

 In a small Texas town (Mt. Vernon), Drummond's bar began construction on

a  new building to increase their business.. The local Baptist church started a

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