Tulsi Gabbard Quotes

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

Your King and Country need you.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.

When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier.

That is why every military officer fights - so that there may be peace.

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

We ask our men and our women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this great country so that we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave.

I fought for this country.

Obviously, I come out of the military - I know the amazing work of the men and women in uniform and the work that they can do.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

I've served my country.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.