21 August 1979 August 21, 2015 Author: Staff The Soviet ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States. Famous Words of Inspiration..."We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams — Click here for more from John Adams Related posts: 21 August 1979 11 February 1979 9 June 1979 12 October 1979 10 November 1979 27 December 1979 16 January 1979 18 February 1979 17 February 1979 9 June 1979 Categories: History Tags: 1979, 21 August