Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is considered to have ... "Yet, all three regularly show up online when people collect Franklin quotes." Other Snopes fact checks about supposed Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

However, one of his most famous quotes from the Revolutionary War does provide some necessary context for the secrecy and desperation of Benjamin Franklin's mission to France. The now-iconic quote ...

Moderated by Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour. Franklin and Revolution features Ken Burns; Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life;" and Erica Dunbar, Professor of History ...