This debt was not contracted as the price of bread or wine or arms. It was the price of liberty.
Alexander Hamilton
‘Eso no,’ respondió el ventero, ‘que no seré yo tan loco que me haga caballero andante: que bien veo que ahora no se usa lo que se usaba en aquel tiempo, cuando se dice que andaban por el mundo estos famosos caballeros.’
‘Certainly not,’ the innkeeper replied. ‘I myself shall never be mad enough to become a knight-errant: because I well understand that nowadays it’s not the thing to do; it’s not as it was in those days, when, so people say, those famous knights went about throughout the world.’
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote
Primera Parte, Capítulo XXXII, Part One, Chapter XXXII