Youth Ideas: Famous American Thanksgiving Quotes

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Youth 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.



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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