Thanksgiving Ideas - Famous American Thanksgiving Quotes

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Thanksgiving Ideas
- Famous American
Thanksgiving
Quotes

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The roots of the American
Thanksgiving holiday
celebration are found in the
faith of our American Founders
and Forefathers. For many
people, like the pilgrims and
puritans, it was the quest for
religious freedom that brought
them to America. Yet it was
their faith in God that brought
them through the tests and
trials of day to day life.



A fitting way to begin this
November, the month in which
Americans celebrate
Thanksgiving, is to look at
some of the words of famous
Americans regarding their
deep faith in God and their
thanks for his blessings!



Here’s some from the
Thanksgiving quotes found in
the Creative Youth Ideas
Website Archives:



Samuel Adams – Thanksgiving
Proclamation
“That all the People may with united
Hearts on that Day express a just
Sense of His unmerited Favors:
–Particularly in that it hath pleased
Him, by His over ruling Providence
to support us in a just and necessary
War for the Defense of our Rights
and Liberties;
…by defeating the Councils and evil
Designs of our Enemies, and giving
us Victory over their Troops



–and by the Continuance of that
Union among these States, which
by his Blessing, will be their future
Strength & Glory.”
Samuel Adams on behalf of the
Continental Congress, November
3, 1778, calling for a day of
Thanksgiving during the
Revolutionary War of the future
“United States of America”



George Washington’s 1789
Thanksgiving Proclamation
“Whereas it is the duty of all nations to
acknowledge the providence of Almighty
God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His
benefits, and humbly to implore His
protection and favor; and Whereas both
Houses of Congress have, by their joint
committee, requested me “to recommend
to the people of the United States a day of
public thanksgiving and prayer, to be
observed by acknowledging with grateful
hearts the many and signal favors of
Almighty God, especially by affording them
an opportunity peaceably to establish a
form of government for their safety and
happiness:”



Now, therefore, I do recommend and
assign Thursday, the 26th day of
November next, to be devoted by the
people of these States to the service of
that great and glorious Being who is the
beneficent author of all the good that
was, that is, or that will be; that we may
then all unite in rendering unto Him our
sincere and humble thanks for His kind
care and protection of the people of this
country previous to their becoming a
nation; for the signal and manifold
mercies and the favorable interpositions
of His providence in the course and
conclusion of the late war;



for the great degree of tranquility,
union, and plenty which we have
since enjoyed; for the peaceable and
rational manner in which we have
been enable to establish constitutions
of government for our safety and
happiness, and particularly the
national one now lately instituted’ for
the civil and religious liberty with
which we are blessed, and the means
we have of acquiring and diffusing
useful knowledge; and, in general, for
all the great and various favors which
He has been pleased to confer upon
us.



And also that we may then unite in most
humbly offering our prayers and
supplications to the great Lord and Ruler
of Nations and beseech Him to pardon
our national and other transgressions;
to enable us all, whether in public or
private stations, to perform our several
and relative duties properly and
punctually; to render our National
Government a blessing to all the people
by constantly being a Government of
wise, just, and constitutional
laws, discreetly and faithfully executed
and obeyed;



to protect and guide all sovereigns
and nations (especially such as have
show kindness to us), and to bless
them with good
governments, peace, and concord;
to promote the knowledge and
practice of true religion and
virtue, and the increase of science
among them and us; and, generally
to grant unto all mankind such a
degree of temporal prosperity as He
alone knows to be best.



And also that we may then unite in
most humbly offering our prayers and
supplications to the great Lord and
Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to
pardon our national and other
transgressions; to enable us
all, whether in public or private
stations, to perform our several and
relative duties properly and punctually;
to render our National Government a
blessing to all the people by constantly
being a Government of wise, just, and
constitutional laws,



discreetly and faithfully executed and
obeyed; to protect and guide all
sovereigns and nations (especially
such as have show kindness to
us), and to bless them with good
governments, peace, and concord; to
promote the knowledge and practice
of true religion and virtue, and the
increase of science among them and
us; and, generally to grant unto all
mankind such a degree of temporal
prosperity as He alone knows to be
best.



Given under my hand, at
the city of New York, the
3rd day of October, A.D.
1789.

(signed) George
Washington



William Bradford
on Thanksgiving
William Bradford was governor
of the Plymouth colony at the
first American thanksgiving in
1621.
He wrote the following in “Of
Plimoth Plantation”



“They begane now to gather in ye
small harvest they had, and to fitted
up their houses and dwellings
against winter, being all well
recovered in health & strength, and
had all things in good plenty; For as
some were thus imployed in affairs
abroad, others were excersised in
fishing, aboute codd, & bass, &
other fish, of which yey tooke good
store, of which every family had
their portion. All ye somer ther was
no want. And now begane to come
in store of foule, as winter
approached, of which this place did
abound when they came first (but
afterward decreased by degrees).



And besids water foule, ther was
great store of wild Turkies, of which
they tooke many, besids venison, &c.
Besids, they had about a peck a
meale a weeke to a person, or now
since harvest, Indean corn to yt
proportion. Which made many
afterwards write so largly of their
plenty hear to their friends in
England, which were not fained, but
true reports.”



Thanksgiving –
Thomas Jefferson

“Adore God. Be just. Be
true. Murmur not at
the ways of
Providence.”
– Thomas Jefferson


Abraham Lincoln’s
Thanksgiving Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln was a man who
learned to face discouragement and
move beyond it. Did you know that
it was Abraham Lincoln who, in the
midst of the Civil War, in
1863, established the annual
celebration of Thanksgiving?



Lincoln had learned how
important it is to stop
and thank God in the
midst of great
difficulties.


“We have been the recipients of the
choicest bounties of heaven; we have
been preserved these many years in
peace and prosperity; we have grown
in numbers, wealth and power as no
other nation has ever grown. But we
have forgotten God. We have forgotten
the gracious hand which preserved us
in peace and multiplied and enriched
and strengthened us, and we have
vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of
our hearts, that all these blessings
were produced by some superior
wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we
have become too self-sufficient to feel
the necessity of redeeming and
preserving grace, too proud to pray to
the God that made us.



It has seemed to me fit and proper
that [the gifts of God] should be
solemnly, reverently, and gratefully
acknowledged with one heart and
one voice by the whole American
people. I do, therefore, invite my
fellow citizens . . . to set apart and
observe the last Thursday of
November next as a day of
thanksgiving and praise to our
beneficent Father who dwelleth in
the heavens.”



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