 Wrote Kennedy : " Permitting the government to decree this speech to be a criminal offense , whether shouted from the rooftops or made in a barely audible whisper , would endorse government authority to compile a list of subjects about which false statements are punishable . That governmental power has no clear limiting principal . Our constitutional tradition stands against the idea that we need Oceania ’ s Ministry of Truth , " invoking George Orwell 's novel 1984 . 
