O people ,know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have omitted these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
Mongol proclamation after the capture of Bukhara
They came ,they sapped ,they burnt, they slew, they plundered and they departed.
Man who escaped the massacre at Bukhara by the Mongols
They razed cities to the ground ,burnt woods, pulled down castles, tore up vine trees, destroyed gardens, and massacred the citizens and husbandmen; if by chance they did spare any who begged their lives, they compelled them, as slaves of the lowest condition, to fight in front of them against their own kindred.
Matthew Paris , English monk, on the Mongols in his Chronica Majora
This son of yours is a boy, who has fire in his eyes, who has light in his face.
Dai-Sechen talking to Genghis’ father
In the same year, for our sins ,there came unknown tribes, and some people called them Tartars…Only God knows who these people are or from whence they came.
Russian Chronicler on the blitzattack and return home of the Mongols after the battle at the Khalkha River
Well, he appoints an officer to every ten men, one to every hundred, one to every thousand, and one to every ten thousand, so that his orders have to be given to ten persons only, and each of these ten persons has to pass the orders to only another ten men, and so on; no one having to give orders to more than ten. And everyone in turn is responsible only to the officer immediately over him; and the discipline and order that comes of this method is marvelous, for they are a people very obedient to their chiefs.
Marco Polo on the organization of the Mongol army instituted by the Khan
Their food consists of everything that can be eaten, for they eat dogs, wolves, foxes and horses and, when driven by necessity, they feed on human flesh… They eat the filth which comes away from mares when they bring forth foals. Nay, I have even seen them eating lice. They would say, ‘Why should I not eat them since they eat the flesh of my son and drink his blood?’
Franciscan monk, John de Plano Carpini on the Mongols
When they are going on a distant expedition they take no gear with them except two leather bottles for milk; a little tent to shelter them from the rain. And in case of great urgency they will ride ten days on end without lighting a fire or taking a meal. On such occasion they will sustain themselves on the blood of their horses, opening a vein and letting the blood jet into their mouths, drinking till they have had enough, and then staunching it.
Marco Polo on the Mongols
If we conquer the enemy, we shall not stop to plunder. If the victory is complete, that booty will be ours in any case and we will share it among ourselves. If we are forced by the enemy to retreat, let us turn back to the point where we began the attack. The men who do not turn back to the point where we began the attack will be cut down.
Genghis Khan
If you are obedient to my mandates, it behooveth that, if I should command the sons to slay the father, you should all obey.
Genghis Khan
If anyone is found in the act of plundering or stealing in the territory under their power, he is put to death without any mercy.
Franciscan monk, John de Plano Carpini on one of the Mongol foundations for the Pax Mongolica
The Emperor of the Tartars has a remarkable power over everyone. No one dare saty anywhere except the place he has assigned to him. It is he who appoints where the chiefs are to be, but the chiefs fix the positions of the captains of a thousand, the captains of a thousand those of the captains of a hundred, and the captains of a hundred those of the captains of ten. Moreover ,whatever command he gives them, be it battle, to life or to death, the obey without word of objection.
Franciscan monk, John de Plano Carpini on the Mongol organization
Let any officer who cannot keep order in his own squad be branded a criminal along with his wife and children, and let another be chosen as officer from his squad and companies of a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand likewise.
Mongol bilig as stated by the Khan
There is no warrior like Yesügei Bahadur, and no one else possesses the skills he had, but he did not suffer from hardship and was not affected by hunger or thirst. He thought his liege men could tolerate hardship as well as he could, but they couldn’t. A man is worthy of leadership who knows what hunger and thirst are and who can judge the condition of others thereby, who can go at a measured pace and not allow the soldiers to get hungry and thirsty or the horses to get worn out.
Genghis Khan
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As from friday I will rebegin modding and I have come up with lots of new ideas since I have been devouring Mongolliterature. 
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