North America
- Canada -
- Prime Minister - Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (1878–1891)
- Costa Rica - Bernardo Soto Alfaro, President of Costa Rica (1885–1890)
- Mexico - Porfirio Díaz, President of México (1884–1911)
- United States - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1885–1889)
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Famous quotes related to north america:
“The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.”
—Ivan Illich (b. 1926)
“We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The English were very backward to explore and settle the continent which they had stumbled upon. The French preceded them both in their attempts to colonize the continent of North America ... and in their first permanent settlement ... And the right of possession, naturally enough, was the one which England mainly respected and recognized in the case of Spain, of Portugal, and also of France, from the time of Henry VII.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)