← "Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? 🔊
← There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word−Man. 🔊
← All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." At this moment there was a tremendous uproar. 🔊
← "Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. 🔊
← "Comrades," said Snowball, "it is half−past six and we have a long day before us. 🔊
← Forward, comrades! The hay is waiting." So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared. 🔊
← or "Whoa back, comrade!" as the case might be. And every animal down to the humblest worked at turning the hay and gathering it. 🔊
← Squealer was sent to make the necessary explanations to the others. "Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? 🔊
← "You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? 🔊
← "No more delays, comrades!" cried Napoleon when the footprints had been examined. "There is work to be done. 🔊
← But we were wrong, comrades. Do you know what the real reason was? Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start! 🔊
← "That was our mistake, comrade. For we know now−it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found−that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom." 🔊
← And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'Death to Humanity!' 🔊
← "What he has done since is different. But I believe that at the Battle of the Cowshed he was a good comrade." 🔊
← He announced that, by a special decree of Comrade Napoleon, Beasts of England had been abolished. 🔊
← The animals' blood boiled with rage when they heard of these things being done to their comrades, and sometimes they clamoured to be allowed to go out in a body and attack Pinchfield Farm, drive out the humans, and set the animals free. 🔊
← And now−thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon−we have won every inch of it back again!" 🔊
← Comrade Napoleon was dying! 🔊
← The animals felt a little uneasy at this. Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings. 🔊
← 'Forward, comrades!' he whispered. 'Forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! 🔊