← There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word−Man. 🔊
← Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" 🔊
← "Comrades," said Snowball, "it is half−past six and we have a long day before us. 🔊
← "Now, comrades," cried Snowball, throwing down the paint−brush, "to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do." 🔊
← "What is going to happen to all that milk?" said someone. "Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our mash," said one of the hens. 🔊
← 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? 🔊
← "Loyalty and obedience are more important. And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball's part in it was much exaggerated. 🔊
← "You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? 🔊
← Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? 🔊
← But we were wrong, comrades. Do you know what the real reason was? Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start! 🔊
← He was Jones's secret agent all the time. It has all been proved by documents which he left behind him and which we have only just discovered. 🔊
← "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." 🔊
← "But he was wounded," said Boxer. "We all saw him running with blood." "That was part of the arrangement!" 🔊
← And he very nearly succeeded−I will even say, comrades, he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic Leader, Comrade Napoleon. 🔊
← Finally he said: "I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. 🔊
← They were going to knock the windmill down. "Impossible!" cried Napoleon. "We have built the walls far too thick for that. 🔊
← "But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!" 🔊
← You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that we have done. The enemy was in occupation of this very ground that we stand upon. 🔊
← And now−thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon−we have won every inch of it back again!" 🔊
← "Then we have won back what we had before," said Boxer. "That is our victory," said Squealer. 🔊