When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
The soldier is the army.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.