← Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" 🔊
← The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. 🔊
← There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. 🔊
← It was always the pigs who put forward the resolutions. The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own. 🔊
← It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote. 🔊
← The animals formed themselves into two factions under the slogan, "Vote for Snowball and the three−day week" and "Vote for Napoleon and the full manger." 🔊
← At last the day came when Snowball's plans were completed. At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote. 🔊
← Then Napoleon stood up to reply. He said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it, and promptly sat down again; he had spoken for barely thirty seconds, and seemed almost indifferent as to the effect he produced. 🔊
← By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go. 🔊