Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 66 of Melanie Kirkpatrick’s delightful 2016 book, Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience:

Another traditional feature of Thanksgiving proclamations is that they express gratitude for American freedoms – religious and civil – and for the American system of government. A large number reference the Founders. In 1876, the centennial of the founding of the United States, Grant spoke of how the nation “has been enabled to fulfill the purpose of its founders in offering an asylum to the people of every race, securing civil and religious liberty to all within its borders, and meting out to every individual alike justice and equality before the law.”

DBx: To all of my fellow Americans – nearly all of us descended from people who emigrated to this land in the past few generations – Happy Thanksgiving!