On Taxes. Estate, Death, and Otherwise

"When a man has enclosed and improved his farm, builds a good house on it and raised plentiful stocks of animals, he will wish when he dies that these things shall go to his wife and children, whom he loves more than he does his other relations, and for whom he will work with pleasure during his life.  You will, therefore, find it necessary to establish laws for this.
When a man has property, earned by his own labor, he will not like to see another come and take it from him because he happens to be stronger, or else to defend it by spilling blood."

Jefferson quote source: To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation.  Washington, January 10, 1806.

On The IRS

"It may be the pleasure and pride of an American to ask, what farmer, what mechanic, what laborer, ever sees a tax-gatherer of the United States?"

Jefferson quote source: Second Inaugural Address. March 4, 1805

On Compulsion to Pay

"That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."

Jefferson quote source: A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom

On Taxes

"That as the colonies possess a right of appropriating their gifts [taxes], so are they entitled at all times to enquire into their application, to see that they be not wasted among the venal and corrupt for the purpose of undermining the civil rights of the givers, nor yet be diverted to the support of standing armies."

(Emphasis added to Jefferson quote by Double Birds)

Jefferson quote source: Resolutions of Congress on Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal