Thomas Jefferson—Would he be Republican or Democrat in today's USA?

Letter to James Madison from Paris, Dec. 20, 1787
"I own, I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors (politicians) indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people."

Letter to Col. William S. Smith, from Paris, Dec 20 1787, on the need diligent protection of liberty…(consider what those wanting more bans on guns would say to this?)
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

First Annual Message, Dec. 8, 1801
Concerning taxes:
"…weighing all probabilities of expense, as well as income, there is reasonable ground of confidence that we may now safely dispense with all the internal taxes, comprehending excises, stamps, auctions, licenses, carriages, and refined sugars, to which the postage on newspapers may be added, to facilitate the progress of information, and that the remaining sources of revenue will be sufficient to provide for the support of government, to pay the interest on the public debts, and to discharge the principals in the shorter periods than the laws or the general expectations had contemplated. War, indeed, and untoward events, may change this prospect of things, and call for expenses which imposts could not meet; but sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when [or we could add, domestic needs or economic down turns, etc.], and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure."