Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1632 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President Inscription on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. See also No. 230. |
| SUBJECTS: | Rich |