"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 clay of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens." —Thanksgiving proclamation, 1863
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
