Speakers for the Living

In the new age, we shall be speakers for the living. The old age when we elected leaders who were speakers for the dead: dead ideas, dead passions, dead battles, will have passed into the lands of the sunset.

To speak for the living is to speak for the future. We must always speak of how things will be. In the election just past, I never heard one comment about the future; it was all blame for the past, and remedy for the present... but note well: no one ever imagined the future, unless you count things like "we shall return to our place of prominence in the world" type of chatter; it is obviously looking backward because the speaker cannot - or dare not - look forward.