My fellow comrades, this is your leader, Snowball speaking.
Things may seem at peace now after the Battle of the Cowshed, but it’s merely the calm before the storm. I’m sure we are all fully aware that those humans are bound to strike again. And this time, their attack will be much stronger than before. As much as you don’t want it to happen, you can’t deny this impending tragedy. We’ve come so far; we cannot let the humans destroy everything we’ve done. We have to make a stand. We have to be prepared to face the humans. And I have a plan on exactly how to do that. I say we send out more and more pigeons to the other farms; get them to stir up rebellion among the animals there. We must unite all the animals from other farms; we are all in this together. It is time for the animals to show our might and power. Imagine comrades, all the animals of all the farms, standing united against the humans. We will overpower the helpless humans, and peace will return once again, no more evil humans to control us. Animal Farm will be our haven.
Defense, comrades, I do understand the meaning of defense; it does not necessary means protecting yourself with great powerful weapons. Although, yes, if we can protect ourselves with simply a pull of a trigger, then why not? I believe that none of us want any lives to be taken away, do you? Not even human ones. And we have to remember that we are animals and accept the fact that our brains and the structure of our body parts is not as advanced as that of humans, just like how my trotters are similar to the hands of humans. And because of that, we might unintentionally hurt or even kill one of us! As you can see, it’s highly dangerous. Why not we do it the less dangerous and more efficient way? We can just send out more pigeons and stir up rebellion among the animals of other farms, we can tell them how we succeeded in the battle of the cowshed and make them believe that we can survive without humans, in fact, we can live p-perfectly normal, or even better than having a worthless parasitical human being around. When more is on our side, the humans will back off and give up the idea of attacking us, recapturing the farm back. In this case, not only nobody will be hurt, it is also a more efficient way, not everything can be solved with violence.
My dear comrades, as for carrying out the idea of stirring up rebellion among animals on the other farms, all we need are messengers to go over and talk to them, convince them and show them how successful our farm is right now, how free we all are away from those evil humans. We can even show them how much food we get to eat and show them our bountiful harvest every year. We can tell them the inspiring story of how we rebelled, reminding them to remain strong and united together as one. Remember, during the Battle of the Cowshed how hard we all fought? How many lives were lost? How many of us were injured? Are you sure you want that to happen again? Think about it comrades, if there’s no need for us to fight and yet win, it is definitely a better choice. We’re killing two birds with one stone.
When there are more of us together in this, we will definitely win. The humans cannot do anything. If all the animals in England unite and rebel against the humans, what can they do? Look, right now, we are the only farm that’s rebelling. It will be very easy for the humans to attack us over and over again no matter how prepared we are, as there are more of them. All we need to do is get the other animals to follow us and soon all animals in England will be freed from torture and slavery. Isn’t that our ultimate goal since the start of the rebellion? Isn’t that the dream of Old Major that we all want to fulfill? Just imagine all of us animals rebelling against the humans and they cannot do anything but run because our army is too big. Just think, after a short while, we’ll all be freed and no lives will be lost. If you vote for my idea, all of you will not have to work that much and lose your friends because of those bloody human fools. Don’t you feel that a bigger army is definitely stronger? We need more of us to fight together. So please, if you really want this farm to be ours and not fall in the hands of the humans, make the right choice. Follow me to stir up a rebellion among the other farms.