Journalists as a group, unlike all other powerful groups, require some protection from themselves, and from their own excesses.

-Black (of Crossharbour), Conrad Black, Baron
  Speech,  Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, 20  Apr, reported in the Globe and Mail the following day.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit, and the fact of living in a society renders it indispensable that each should be bound to observe a certain line of conduct towards the rest. That conduct consists†in each person bearing his share of the labours and sacrifices incurred for defending the society or its members from injuryand molestation.

-Mill,John Stuart
  On Liberty.

Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  Putting FirstThings First.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating heartsand living affections,onlyassomany things belonging tothemasteröso long asthefailure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless miseryand toilöso long is it impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

-Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) ne¤  e Beecher
  UncleTom's Cabin, ch.1.