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“In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared two Thanksgivings. One was held in August. The second, held in November, was to give thanks for the nation's…

— Linda Bozzo

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage, the…

— Ronald Reagan

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we…

— Finley Peter Dunne

Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.

— Linda Colley

I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it…

— Ellen Orleans

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

— O. Henry

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

— Daniela Ruah

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

— Daniela Ruah

Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates…

— Robert Jensen

“We celebrate together, and that makes sense. And we don’t just gather, we eat. This wasn’t always so. The federal government first thought to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

— Jay Leno