Youth Thanksgiving Ideas - Famous American Thanksgiving Quotes

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Youth 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 wastheir faith in God that brought them through the tests and trials

of day to day life.




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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!




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Heres some from the Thanksgiving quotes found

in the Creative Youth Ideas Website Archives:


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Samuel AdamsThanksgiving 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 andLiberties;

by defeating the Councils and evil Designs of our Enemies, and giving us

Victory over their Troops




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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




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George Washingtons 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 peopleof 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:




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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 allthe great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon

us.




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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;




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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.




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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, andconstitutional laws,




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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.




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Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3rd

day of October, A.D. 1789.

(signed) George Washington




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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




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They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and tofitted 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. Allye 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).




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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, buttrue reports.




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Adore God. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the

ways of Providence.Thomas Jefferson

Thanksgiving Thomas Jefferson




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Abraham Lincolns

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?




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Lincoln had learned how important it is to stop

and thank God in the midst of great difficulties.




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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 wereproduced 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.




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