If they don't learn how to make money, they will know how to use it; and if they don't learn industry, they will see how comfortable everybody can be that turns his hands to some employment." Crockett was not a mere joker.

He was an honest man, and an earnest man; and under the tuition of Congress had formed some very decided political principles, which he vigorously enforced with his rude eloquence.
When he first went to Congress he was merely a big boy, of very strong mind, but totally uninformed, and uncultivated.

He very rapidly improved under the tuition of Congress; and in some degree awoke to the consciousness of his great intellectual imperfections.

Still he was never diffident.

He closed one of his off-hand after-dinner speeches in Boston, by saying: "Gentlemen of Boston, I come here as a private citizen, to see you, and not to show myself.