Ben Franklin knew all about faking it 'til you make it. At the age of 16, he apprenticed at his older brother's Boston print shop, publisher of The New-England Courant. Alas, James Franklin wasn't ...

Ahead of Benjamin Franklin Day this Wednesday, here are 10 inspiring quotes by one of the greatest Founding Fathers of the US as we mark his birth anniversary One of the Founding Fathers of the ...

As Independence Day approaches, social media is lighting up with memes and quotes from the nation’s Founding Fathers. But did George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin actually ...

It's true that Franklin penned these words in a letter in 1789. At the same time, the same sort of sentiment about "death and taxes" previously appeared in a play decades earlier. On Nov. 13, 1789 ...