[b359]

Perhaps this was the context you were looking for?

“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”

-Patrick Henry

[stormer]

A very stirring speaker, Mr. Henry. However according to Snopes http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/capital.asp, “These words appear nowhere in the writing or recorded utterences of Patrick Henry.”

[raynearhood]

For future reference, it is misquoted. Here's the story behind the mistake. And below is the page in the magazine from whence the mistake was drawn.