text:  And then I set out to see how the founders applied these lessons in their own lives. And again, what I learned came as a revelation. They talked constantly about their efforts to achieve virtuous self-mastery, to calm their anxieties. They fell short in important respects, most notoriously slavery, where the enslavers acknowledged their own hypocrisy. Patrick Henry said, is it not amazing that he owns slaves even as he viewed slavery as violating natural rights?