Thanksgiving Party Activity - Famous American Thanksgiving Quotes

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

“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.”

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

Abraham Lincoln’s
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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