“I have no wish to take life, not even human life,” repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears.

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.”

Republic of the Animals which would arise when the human race had been finally overthrown.

will work harder!”—which he had adopted as his personal motto.

A unanimous resolution was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum.

Yes, it was theirs—everything that they could see was theirs!

“Ribbons,” he said, “should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. All animals should go naked.”

They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.