Six years later in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), lead actress Dorothy Malone would portray Frances Chaney (Cleva Creighton Chaney), the real-life mother of Malone's supporting co-star here, Lon Chaney Jr.. Two years after this film in A Lion Is in the Streets (1953), Lon Jr. would also work with that film's star James Cagney, who would go on to star as Lon's father Lon Chaney, the title role in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957).
George Washington said "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace" during his First Annual Address, to both houses of Congress on Friday, 1/8/1790.
The Alexander Pope quote "You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday" is from Pope's "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1727), which was published in Jonathan Swift's "Miscellanies" (1727).
The John Milton quotes spoken by Sharpe are from "Paradise Lost: Book IX" ('"O fairest of all creation, last and best/ Of all God's works...') and "Paradise Lost: Book XI" ('... the morn, / All unconcern'd with our unrest, begins / Her rosy progress smiling...')