The National Guard's motto "Always Ready, Always There" is embodied in its founding when militias protected the colonies and today as the National Guard protects U.S. citizens at home and abroad.

A3 Lebanon's rival Shiite militias signed a peace agreement that they said would end their power struggle and year of bitter fighting and would protect the staff of international organizations.

"I haven't joined a party and no militia is protecting me."

"Aye," Yorke said, mimicking the foreman's Lincolnshire accent, "and may the Good Lord and the militia protect you from Mrs Judd and Mrs Bullock!"

Now Shiite politicians say they need the militias to protect themselves from the insurgency.

The militia also had the duties of patrolling and protecting this barrier.

American troops in northeast Baghdad heard the same refrain from Shiites who said that only their own militias could protect them from Sunni insurgents.

Most of the Muskogee fled westward with the arrival of European settlers, many of them organizing themselves into armed resistance units, which fought government forces and British militias to protect their native territory well into the early 19th century.

Well, in the first place, I would want a militia, disciplined, and well trained, to maintain order, to protect the city and caravans from the Green Chasch.

The right of free people to form militias to protect life, liberty, and property, Larry Pratt argues, has been shown historically to be essential for the preservation of freedom.