Jürgen Habermas -"Not long ago, a generation of young Germans who were liberated from the Nazi regime by American soldiers developed admiration for the political ideas of a nation that soon became the driving force in founding of United Nations and carrying out the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. As a consequence, classical international law was revolutionized by limiting the sovereignty of nation-states, by abolishing the immunity of state authorities from supranational prosecution and by incorporating unprecedented crimes into the penal code of international jurisdiction. Should this same nation now brush aside the civilizing achievement of legally domesticating the state of nature among belligerent nations?" -- "Letter to America." The Nation (December 16, 2002).

Jürgen Habermas -"The affinity in value-orientations between the domestic political culture of the only remaining superpower on one side, and the cosmopolitan project on the other, at least facilitates a possible return of a future US-Government to the original mission of the nation that was the primary promoter of a constitutionalization of international politics." -- "Dispute On the Past and Future of International Law. Transition From a National to a Postnational Constellation." The plenary presentation at the World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul, August 10, 2003).