One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. William Hull More Quotes by William Hull More Quotes From William Hull Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer. William Hull support bible sympathy If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn. William Hull taught speak children In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. William Hull flag captain lines morning