We have long heard of your nation as a peaceful and friendly people; but this is the first visit we have had from its great men. i welcome you here; am glad to take you by the hand, and to promise you that we are their friends. born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may try to make us enemies. by living in peace, we can one another; by starting war, we can kill many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that. then, brothers, let it forever be peace and good neighborhood between us.

which sentence or phrase from the passage best states why jefferson favored friendly relations with the native americans?

a. by living in peace, we can one another
b. we will give you a copy of the law, made by our great council.
c. our seventeen states make up a great and growing nation.