Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
96
AUTHOR:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63)
QUOTATION:
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.
ATTRIBUTION:
President JOHN F. KENNEDY, remarks upon receiving an honorary degree, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 817.
Inscription on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
