- Batu: Then let us avoid this bloodshed. I pledge the safety of every man in this fort... on one condition... . Sarit... you hold a thousand lives in your hand.
- Dr. Tony Newman: No!... We can beat them off... . We'll fight.
- Batu: Do you take orders from homeless strangers?
- Marco Polo: I take orders from Kublai Khan... and my conscience.
- Batu: And does your conscience... say that all your men must die... when they can all live? If you give her up.