Maybe so, but he was absolutely right on that.
It’s a good quote you posted.
But I basically loathe what Ted Roosevelt did, especially his income tax which crippled America’s freedom from government coercion and sapped her wealth attained through freedom and the free market economy.
Roosevelt’s “Rough Rider” persona hid what turned out to be his antagonism against “rugged individualism” - the grist that made America great.
Teddy’s relative sealed the deal a couple of decades later.