It is appreciated. He definitely wouldn't challenge a lady to a duel; but he doesn't much like being needled by anyone, really.

"No, they don't," he agrees with a slight laugh. "I've no intention of the sort, I only ever tried to keep a nation together." Through a good number of things, really: independence, the ratification of the Constitution, and a nearly crippling national debt. He harbored no secret dreams of crowning himself king, anyhow.