Happy Thanksgiving, 2025!

In the tradition of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and in celebration of the federal holiday of Thanksgiving established by President George Washington, we Americans give thanks today to God for the blessings He has given us. We are grateful to the Europeans who colonized the Americas and for their friendship with the Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims survive the harsh winter in the New World by teaching them agricultural practices for native plants that produced a bountiful harvest. In giving thanks publicly and in a civic manner through federal and state holidays, Americans acknowledge that their liberty comes not from man, but from God, as expressed in the American Creed in the Declaration of Independence. And like the Pilgrims and their Native American friends, we give thanks for the individual blessings we each enjoy. This year, we Americans should give thanks particularly not only for the military servicemen, intelligence and security agents, and emergency responders who keep us safe, but for the United States Constitution that formed the Union of States and safeguards our freedom and rights, and for the state Constitutions that similarly guarantee liberty. Americans should be especially grateful for federalism, the separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary, and the rule of law, and for those federal and state officials who keep their oaths not to any man, but to the federal Constitution. May God continue to bless America and every American citizen, national and permanent resident (especially those aspiring to citizenship), as well as the refugees who believe in the American Creed who are seeking asylum from persecution, and each of the American States and territories!