The opening quote, "I have been bent and broken, but, I hope, into a better shape" is from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The "Wessen Council Meeting The Hague" room is actually the Renaissance Room at the Sentinel Hotel in Portland, Oregon. It is a favorite local venue for very expensive weddings.
Monroe mentions the Germanic ambush in Teutorburg Forest where "three Roman legions were decimated." Here language gets tricky. Today, 'decimation' means devastation. At the time of ancient Rome, "decimation" was a military punishment for large groups of soldiers wherein the individual soldiers drew lots and one in 10 of them had to be executed by their team-mates. At the time of Teutorburg, this had gone out of fashion; but a hundred years earlier, such an inexcusable defeat might have been punished by decimation of the survivors.
Bailey Chase and Bob Clendenin both starred in Longmire (2012) as Branch Connolly and Jaime Debell respectively.
The title of the episode is the same as the protest song written in 1964.