Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1632
AUTHOR:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (191763)
QUOTATION:
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
ATTRIBUTION:
President JOHN F. KENNEDY, State of the Union address, January 14, 1963.Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 13.
Inscription on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.