← But I will come to the dream later. I have something else to say first. 🔊
← Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. 🔊
← Each was sold at a year old−you will never see one of them again. 🔊
← That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, but I know, as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be done. 🔊
← All animals are equal. "And now, comrades, I will tell you about my dream of last night. 🔊
← I cannot describe that dream to you. It was a dream of the earth as it will be when Man has vanished. 🔊
← The stupidest questions of all were asked by Mollie, the white mare. The very first question she asked Snowball was: "Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion? " 🔊
← "Never mind the milk, comrades!" cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. "That will be attended to. 🔊
← The harvest is more important. Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. 🔊
← "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. 🔊
← And from then on he adopted the maxim, "Napoleon is always right," in addition to his private motto of "I will work harder." 🔊
← His two slogans, "I will work harder" and "Napoleon is always right," seemed to him a sufficient answer to all problems. 🔊
← And yet, against their will, they had developed a certain respect for the efficiency with which the animals were managing their own affairs. 🔊
← Squealer made excellent speeches on the joy of service and the dignity of labour, but the other animals found more inspiration in Boxer's strength and his never−failing cry of "I will work harder! " 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Sometimes on the slope leading to the top of the quarry, when he braced his muscles against the weight of some vast boulder, it seemed that nothing kept him on his feet except the will to continue. 🔊
← At such times his lips were seen to form the words, "I will work harder"; he had no voice left. 🔊
← "It does not matter. I think you will be able to finish the windmill without me. 🔊
← To tell you the truth, I had been looking forward to my retirement. And perhaps, as Benjamin is growing old too, they will let him retire at the same time and be a companion to me." 🔊
← Napoleon ended his speech with a reminder of Boxer's two favourite maxims, "I will work harder" and "Comrade Napoleon is always right"−maxims, he said, which every animal would do well to adopt as his own. 🔊