"If we yield to the tax power of government it places us in the lowest bottom of slavery. For if they can take away one penny from us against our wills, they can take all. If they have such power over our properties they must have a proportional power over our persons; and from hence it will follow, that they can demand and take away our lives, whensoever it shall be agreeable to their sovereign wills and pleasure."
Silas Downer, an Original Son of Liberty, 1729-1785